Vallins Coleridge's Writings: On the Sublime

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-230-51426-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 197 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

This new volume demonstrates the extent and diversity of Coleridge's writings on the sublime. It highlights the development of his aesthetic of transcendence from an initial emphasis on the infinite progressiveness of humanity, through a fascination with landscape as half-revealing the infinite forces underlying it, and with literature as producing a similar feeling of the inexpressible, to an increasing emphasis on contemplating the ineffable nature of God, as well as the transcendent power of Reason or spiritual insight.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vallins, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Symbols and Abbreviations Introduction 'These soul-ennobling views': Enlightenment and Sublimity in Coleridge's Early Writings 'A stirring and inquietude of Fancy': Coleridge and the Sublimity of Landscape 'A grand feeling of the unimaginable': Transcendence in Literature and the Visual Arts 'That life-ebullient stream': Coleridge and Romantic Psychology 'An intuitive beholding': Aspects of the Sublime in Coleridge's Religious Thought Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID VALLINS is a Lecturer in English at Hiroshima University, Japan, and has previously taught at universities in Britain and Hong Kong. His publications include (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), and articles on Akenside, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, R.W. Emerson and Virginia Woolf.