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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... things ' . The wisdom formulated at the centre of ' Hyperion ' predicts , and determines , what is Keats's fullest ... thing - tho so horrid in their experience ' . Keats remarked in another letter , written at the very time when he gave ...
... things ' . The wisdom formulated at the centre of ' Hyperion ' predicts , and determines , what is Keats's fullest ... thing - tho so horrid in their experience ' . Keats remarked in another letter , written at the very time when he gave ...
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... things , Birth and the grave , that are not as they were . ( 11. 710-20 ) The consolations of The Excursion are deconstructed as unavailing fictions or falsehoods , not a set of inviolable truths . At the same time the direct quotation ...
... things , Birth and the grave , that are not as they were . ( 11. 710-20 ) The consolations of The Excursion are deconstructed as unavailing fictions or falsehoods , not a set of inviolable truths . At the same time the direct quotation ...
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... things external . Though there may be no cure for the riven heart , we none the less contemplate it zealously - and ... things ' . To him it is matter which is illusory , a mere concept , while ' the life of things ' – what his ...
... things external . Though there may be no cure for the riven heart , we none the less contemplate it zealously - and ... things ' . To him it is matter which is illusory , a mere concept , while ' the life of things ' – what his ...
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William Cowper and the Condition of England | 19 |
Cowpers The Castaway | 33 |
Wordsworth Bunyan and the Puritan Mind | 69 |
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