Spirits of Fire: English Romantic Writers and Contemporary Historical MethodsG. A. Rosso, Daniel P. Watkins Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1990 - 293 страници This work is a compilation of twelve essays on romantic literature by practitioners of a resurgent historical criticism sharing the common assumption that no aspect of the object of literary study escapes the conditioning power of historical change. |
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A Response to Sayre and Lowy | 69 |
An Answer to Michael Ferber | 85 |
Practical Reasoning Rhetoric and Wordsworths Preface | 95 |
The Rhetoric and Context of John Thelwalls Memoir | 112 |
Sir Walter Scott and the Spirit of the Novel | 131 |
The Long Tradition of Hazlitts Liber Amoris | 153 |
The Final Nights | 173 |
Women and Gender in Blakes Pickering Manuscript | 189 |
The Meaning of The Ancient Mariner | 208 |
Historical Amnesia and Patriarchal Morality in Keatss Ode on a Grecian Urn | 240 |
The Political Prometheus | 260 |
Notes on Contributors | 285 |
Index | 287 |
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Страница 234 - Lyrical Ballads ;" in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth...
Страница 236 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Страница 104 - For a multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a < state of almost savage torpor.
Страница 148 - I think there is a demon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it astray from the purpose. Characters expand under my hand; incidents are multiplied; the story lingers, while the materials increase; my regular mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly, and the work is closed long before I have attained the point I proposed.
Страница 250 - Now, what peculiarly signalizes the situation of woman is that she —a free and autonomous being like all human creatures— nevertheless finds herself living in a world where men compel her to assume the status of the Other.
Страница 105 - I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity : the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of re-action, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.
Страница 209 - From what I can gather it seems that The Ancyent Marinere has upon the whole been an injury to the volume, I mean that the old words and the strangeness of it have deterred readers from going on.
Страница 240 - I see by little and little more of what is to be done, and how it is to be done, should I ever be able to do it. On my soul, there should be some reward for that continual "agonie ennuyeuse.