Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens

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Routledge, 8. 4. 2016 - Počet stran: 272
The relationship between literature and religion is one of the most groundbreaking and challenging areas of Romantic studies. Covering the entire field of Romanticism from its eighteenth-century origins in the writing of William Cowper and its proleptic stirrings in Paradise Lost to late-twentieth-century manifestations in the work of Wallace Stevens, the essays in this timely volume explore subjects such as Romantic attitudes towards creativity and its relation to suffering and religious apprehension; the allure of the 'veiled' and the figure of the monk in Gothic and Romantic writing; Miltonic light and inspiration in the work of Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats; the relationship between Southey's and Coleridge's anti-Catholicism and definitions of religious faith in the Romantic period; the stammering of Romantic attempts to figure the ineffable; the emergence of a feminised Christianity and a gendered sublime; the development of Calvinism and its role in contemporary religious controversies. Its primary focus is the canonical Romantic poets, with a particular emphasis on Byron, whose work is most in need of critical re-evaluation given its engagement with the Christian and Islamic worlds and its critique of totalising religious and secular readings. The collection is an original and much-needed intervention in Romantic studies, bringing together the contextual awareness of recent historicist scholarship with the newly awakened interest in matters of form and an appreciation of the challenges of postmodern theory.
 

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Grace Under Pressure
1
Milton and the Romantic Visionary
25
Self Nature Society
41
Wordsworths Faithful Scepticism
57
Southey Coleridge and English Romantic Anxieties
75
Byron and Atonement
93
Byron Thomas Chalmers and the Scottish Religious Heritage
107
7 Byrons Confessional Pilgrimage
121
Scepticism and the Voice of Poetry in Byrons Cain
155
Ghostly Closure and Comic Continuity
167
Hopkins Keats and the Gratuity of Grace
181
Percy Bysshe Shelley after Postmodern Theology
191
13 Sacred Art and Profane Poets
207
Stevenss Esthétique du Mal Evil and the Romantic Imagination
223
Bibliography
237
Index
255

The Diction of Don Juan
137

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Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler

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