A Modern Coleridge

Cultivation, Addiction, Habits
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-70884-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2534 g

A Modern Coleridge shows the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction and habit in Coleridge's poetry and prose, and argues that these all revolve around the problematic nexus of a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's eminently modern idea of the 'human'.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Timár, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction PART I: CULTIVATION 1. Cultivating Reason and the Will 2. The Shaping Spirit of Education 3. Staging Education: 'The Appeal to Law'. Wordsworth's 'Peter Bell'. And 'The Ancient Mariner' 4. Sympathy: Adam Smith and Coleridgean Education PART II: ADDICTION 5. Re-reading Culture and Addiction: Coleridge's Writings on Civilisation and Walter Benjamin's Analysis of Modernity and the Addict 6. Craving for Novelties - Craving for Novels: The Politics of Intoxicated Reading 7. He 'did not write, he acted poems': Kubla Khan, Luther and Rousseau PART III: HABITS 8. 'habits of active industry' (AI, 49) 9. The Habit of 'abstruse research': 'Dejection: and Ode' Conclusion: Cultivation through Love: 'Effusion XXXV' and 'The Eolian Harp' Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Timár is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Her articles on Coleridge appeared in The Wordsworth Circle, The Coleridge Bulletin, Notes and Queries, and Critical Engagements: a Journal of Criticism and Theory.