The Absent God in the Works of William Wordsworth

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-64136-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

Called by one of its reviewers "Wordsworth’s biographia literaria," this book takes its reader on a fascinating journey into the mind of the poet whose attitude to God and religion points to a major shift in Western culture. The monograph probes the philosophical foundations of Wordsworth’s religious outlook, drawing attention to this First Generation Romantic poet as the author who happened to record in his verse the rise to prominence of some of the intellectual and spiritual challenges and the most troublesome uncertainties that have defined Western man ever since. The book constitutes a self-contained whole and can be read independently. Simultaneously, it creates an unusual duet with the companion volume, The Presence of God in the Works of William Wordsworth. These two works can be regarded as contraries—or negatives: one offering an ironically positive reading of Wordsworth’s religious discourse, the other offering a reading which is positively negative.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borkowska, Eliza

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ONE "Go forward, and look back"—

Wordsworth’s Theologies of the Future and Past Encounters

TWO "How exquisitely the individual Mind /. to the external World is fitted"—

The Absent Present

THREE A Recluse—

The Esemplastic Power of the Imagination

FOUR "The philosophic mind"—

The Author’s Method(s) for the Imagination

FIVE The Recluse—

The Presence of the Absence

SIX Retrospect—

The Presence of the Absence (Concluded): Wordsworth’s Discourses on God

Über Autor(innen)

Eliza Borkowska (https://www.elizaborkowska.com/info) is Associate Professor of Literature at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw and the author of But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body: Blake’s Revelation Un-Locked (2009). She is currently working as a co-author on the first translation of Blake’s Jerusalem into Polish.