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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... sense constructed or 'made'. 6 Angels are notorious for their violation of ontological boundaries.44 The consummate image of which is their ascending and descending of the ladder between heaven and earth in Jacob's dream (Genesis, 28) ...
... sense constructed or 'made'. 6 Angels are notorious for their violation of ontological boundaries.44 The consummate image of which is their ascending and descending of the ladder between heaven and earth in Jacob's dream (Genesis, 28) ...
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... sense of difference in relation is lyrically described by Paul Claudel (addressing the divine): 'from the sublimest Angel who beholds Thee down to the pebble on the path, and from the one end of Thy creation to the other, / The ...
... sense of difference in relation is lyrically described by Paul Claudel (addressing the divine): 'from the sublimest Angel who beholds Thee down to the pebble on the path, and from the one end of Thy creation to the other, / The ...
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... sense of the divine as the unspeakable has, of course, always hovered close to religious experience. However, in recent years there has been an exponential increase of interest in apophaticism.49 So much so, that Denys Turner has been ...
... sense of the divine as the unspeakable has, of course, always hovered close to religious experience. However, in recent years there has been an exponential increase of interest in apophaticism.49 So much so, that Denys Turner has been ...
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... sense falls prey to its own condemnations, for it replaces one set of unquestioned presuppositions with another. To speak of Romantic 'illusions' – as McGann insistently does – is to suppose that one can place oneself 'after' or 'above ...
... sense falls prey to its own condemnations, for it replaces one set of unquestioned presuppositions with another. To speak of Romantic 'illusions' – as McGann insistently does – is to suppose that one can place oneself 'after' or 'above ...
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... sense of relation between the self and the other or subject and object (terms which surreptitiously work for the logic of pure difference). Recognising the possibility of this alternative would mean that we could no longer blithely ...
... sense of relation between the self and the other or subject and object (terms which surreptitiously work for the logic of pure difference). Recognising the possibility of this alternative would mean that we could no longer blithely ...
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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