Centring the Self: Subjectivity, Society, and Reading from Thomas Gray to Thomas HardyThese essays focus primarily on the theme of selfhood and subjective experience in the poetry of the British Romantic period, and in the later poetry and novels that were its legacy. There are chapters on Gray, Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hardy and George Eliot - writers who, though often having a strong interest in public affairs, all turned inwards to make trial of imagination and the individual life as sources of order and value against a background of cultural unsettlement. The book moves from the emergence of post-Enlightenment psychological man to the proto-modernist preoccupation with the self as construct in Byron and Hardy. |
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... effect , which gives the event the status of symbolic and universal truth , operates simultaneously with what can be termed a ' specifying effect ' , which communicates the very singular intensity , physical and emotional , of the ...
... effect , which gives the event the status of symbolic and universal truth , operates simultaneously with what can be termed a ' specifying effect ' , which communicates the very singular intensity , physical and emotional , of the ...
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... effect of the physical specificity of Cowper's imagery , with its insist- ence on the source of blood in veins and on the baptismal bath of purifying blood , is likely to be a ' shocking ... grotesquerie'.26 Spacks in point of fact ...
... effect of the physical specificity of Cowper's imagery , with its insist- ence on the source of blood in veins and on the baptismal bath of purifying blood , is likely to be a ' shocking ... grotesquerie'.26 Spacks in point of fact ...
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... effect of objectivity , supplying as it were the second- ary features of an impersonal poetic drama . It is essential to acknow- ledge , though , that these are wholly subservient to the interest of personality , experience , and ...
... effect of objectivity , supplying as it were the second- ary features of an impersonal poetic drama . It is essential to acknow- ledge , though , that these are wholly subservient to the interest of personality , experience , and ...
Contents
William Cowper and the Condition of England | 19 |
Cowpers The Castaway | 33 |
Wordsworth Bunyan and the Puritan Mind | 69 |
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