Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace StevensThe relationship between literature and religion is one of the most groundbreaking and challenging areas of Romantic studies. Covering the entire field of Romanticism from its eighteenth-century origins in the writing of William Cowper and its proleptic stirrings in Paradise Lost to late-twentieth-century manifestations in the work of Wallace Stevens, the essays in this timely volume explore subjects such as Romantic attitudes towards creativity and its relation to suffering and religious apprehension; the allure of the 'veiled' and the figure of the monk in Gothic and Romantic writing; Miltonic light and inspiration in the work of Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats; the relationship between Southey's and Coleridge's anti-Catholicism and definitions of religious faith in the Romantic period; the stammering of Romantic attempts to figure the ineffable; the emergence of a feminised Christianity and a gendered sublime; the development of Calvinism and its role in contemporary religious controversies. Its primary focus is the canonical Romantic poets, with a particular emphasis on Byron, whose work is most in need of critical re-evaluation given its engagement with the Christian and Islamic worlds and its critique of totalising religious and secular readings. The collection is an original and much-needed intervention in Romantic studies, bringing together the contextual awareness of recent historicist scholarship with the newly awakened interest in matters of form and an appreciation of the challenges of postmodern theory. |
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... suggests in the present volume, religion has become the repressed Other of Romantic studies (p. 204). An obvious example as well as a selfconscious advocate of such 'repressive' secular criticism is Jerome McGann's The Romantic Ideology ...
... suggests in the present volume, religion has become the repressed Other of Romantic studies (p. 204). An obvious example as well as a selfconscious advocate of such 'repressive' secular criticism is Jerome McGann's The Romantic Ideology ...
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... suggest not. One thing that religion has in common with Romanticism – which it has, to be sure, been guilty of forgetting, but which is vitally foregrounded by postmodern theology – is its commitment to an 'if': not merely in ...
... suggest not. One thing that religion has in common with Romanticism – which it has, to be sure, been guilty of forgetting, but which is vitally foregrounded by postmodern theology – is its commitment to an 'if': not merely in ...
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... suggests, inform the selfcentred perception of later Romantic writers in a more nuanced and less evasive way than writers like McGann have assumed. Examining Cowper's legacy for subsequent writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ...
... suggests, inform the selfcentred perception of later Romantic writers in a more nuanced and less evasive way than writers like McGann have assumed. Examining Cowper's legacy for subsequent writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ...
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... suggests, manifests the 'levelling' spirit which Wordsworth promised (but failed) to bring into poetry. In Don Juan's poetic democracy the languages of philosophy, science and of menus, prescriptions and advertisements all contend for ...
... suggests, manifests the 'levelling' spirit which Wordsworth promised (but failed) to bring into poetry. In Don Juan's poetic democracy the languages of philosophy, science and of menus, prescriptions and advertisements all contend for ...
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... suggests that Byron's view of Cain as 'speculative and hardy, but [...] harmless' was because, while reclaiming his own Scottish roots, he 'mistakenly [expected] his play to be received in England in the same way that it would have been ...
... suggests that Byron's view of Cain as 'speculative and hardy, but [...] harmless' was because, while reclaiming his own Scottish roots, he 'mistakenly [expected] his play to be received in England in the same way that it would have been ...
Contents
Milton and | |
Self Nature Society | |
Wordsworths Faithful | |
Southey Coleridge and English | |
Byron | |
Chalmers and the Scottish Religious Heritage | |
Byrons Confessional Pilgrimage | |
Scepticism and the Voice of Poetry | |
Ghostly Closure and Comic | |
Hopkins Keats and the Gratuity of Grace | |
Percy Bysshe | |
Sacred Art and Profane Poets | |
Stevenss Esthétique du Mal Evil | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
The Diction of Don Juan | |
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |
Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Dr Gavin Hopps,Dr Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2013 |
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