Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-818723-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

Over the last two decades Romantic studies have been invigorated by a variety of historical methods, approaches, interests; yet work on Samuel Taylor Coleridge has remained dominated by traditional views of Romantic transcendence. Bringing together an exciting variety of approaches, the fifteen authors here redirect attention to Coleridge's relation to the 'sciences of life' - a term which embraces a much broader field than modern 'science'. Accordingly there are chapters on Coleridge and the vitalist debate, political and social ideas, race theories, dissent, literary relations, and language, as well as on his relation to contemporary optics, chemistry, geology, anatomy, and medicine. Taken all together, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life marks a vital and exciting development in Coleridge criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roe, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Illustrations

- Abbreviations

- 1: Nicholas Roe: Introduction

- 2: Elinor Shaffer: Myths of Community in the Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998: The Commonwealth and the Constitution

- 3: Kenneth R. Johnston: The Political Sciences of Life: From American Pantisocracy to British Romanticism

- 4: Susan Manly: Jews, Jubilee, and Harringtonianism in Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth: Republican Conversions

- 5: Peter J. Kitson: Coleridge and 'the Oran utan hypothesis': Romantic Theories of Race

- 6: Tim Fulford: Theorizing Golgotha: Coleridge, Race Theory, and the Skull Beneath the Skin

- 7: James C. McKusick: Kubla Khan and the Theory of the Earth

- 8: Neil Vickers: Coleridge's Abstruse Researches

- 9: Jane Stabler: Space for Speculation: Coleridge, Barbauld, and the Poetics of Priestley

- 10: Beth Lau: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein

- 11: Angela Esterhammer: Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sun-rise' and the Voice Not Heard

- 12: Seamus Perry: Coleridge and the End of Autonomy

- 13: Raimondo Modiano: Historicist Readings of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

- 14: Kelvin Everest: Coleridge's Secret Ministry: Historical Reading and Editorial Theory

- 15: John Beer: How Shall We Write the Life of Coleridge?

- Contributors

- Index