Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace StevensGavin Hopps, Jane Stabler Covering the entire field of Romanticism from its eighteenth-century origins in the writing of William Cowper to late-twentieth-century manifestations in the work of Wallace Stevens, this 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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... language without force [ ... ] ' . 26 In the absence of any secure site or transcendental vantage point , belief becomes more of a risk , an act of ' madness ' even , 27 which is based upon the ' weakness of a fable [ ... ] ' . 28 ...
... language without force [ ... ] ' . 26 In the absence of any secure site or transcendental vantage point , belief becomes more of a risk , an act of ' madness ' even , 27 which is based upon the ' weakness of a fable [ ... ] ' . 28 ...
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... language and differentiation . Instead - like an angel - the subject ' is ' what it does , or - in the image of the Trinitarian Creator - it ' is ' its differential relation with the other . 5 Angels mediate or ' are ' their mediation ...
... language and differentiation . Instead - like an angel - the subject ' is ' what it does , or - in the image of the Trinitarian Creator - it ' is ' its differential relation with the other . 5 Angels mediate or ' are ' their mediation ...
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... language , whose ' stammering ' betrays the inadequacy of the finite to represent that which is beyond it ( though in doing so , such stammering may point obliquely towards such beyondness ) . A sense of the divine as the unspeakable ...
... language , whose ' stammering ' betrays the inadequacy of the finite to represent that which is beyond it ( though in doing so , such stammering may point obliquely towards such beyondness ) . A sense of the divine as the unspeakable ...
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... language points in allegorising its own deconstruction . If this is the case , if reality is ultimately an abyssal flux of difference , then intimations of unity or relation which seem fleetingly to reconcile the separation of self and ...
... language points in allegorising its own deconstruction . If this is the case , if reality is ultimately an abyssal flux of difference , then intimations of unity or relation which seem fleetingly to reconcile the separation of self and ...
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... language ungovernably misfires , infects with metaphoricity and tail - chasingly leads only to more and more language have undoubtedly encouraged a loss of trust in the word and a corollary sense , as Derrida puts it , that ' [ d ] eath ...
... language ungovernably misfires , infects with metaphoricity and tail - chasingly leads only to more and more language have undoubtedly encouraged a loss of trust in the word and a corollary sense , as Derrida puts it , that ' [ d ] eath ...
Contents
Approaching the Unapproached Light Milton and the Romantic Visionary | 25 |
Cowper Prospects Self Nature Society | 41 |
Je sais bien mais quand même Wordsworths Faithful Scepticism | 57 |
Catholic Contagion Southey Coleridge and English Romantic Anxieties | 75 |
Sacrifice and Offering Thou Didst Not Desire Byron and Atonement | 93 |
I was Bred a Moderate Presbyterian Byron Thomas Chalmers and the Scottish Religious Heritage | 107 |
Byrons Confessional Pilgrimage | 121 |
Words and the Word The Diction of Don Juan | 137 |
Byrons Monky Business Ghostly Closure and Comic Continuity | 167 |
A Fine Excess Hopkins Keats and the Gratuity of Grace | 181 |
Until Death Tramples It to Fragments Percy Bysshe Shelley after Postmodern Theology | 191 |
Sacred Art and Profane Poets | 207 |
The Death of Satan Stevenss Esthetique du Mal Evil and the Romantic Imagination | 223 |
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Why Should I Speak? Scepticism and the Voice of Poetry in Byrons Cain | 155 |
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Page 12 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?