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Ferrier, Susan
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782–1854) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott, a fellow novelist who saluted her as “a sister shadow” in the epilogue...
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A. S. Byatt: Creating the Intellectual Woman
This chapter takes the Romantic genius as its first example of this process, and one in which Byatt’s fiction takes a telling and illuminating...
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Anxiety and the Creative Encounter: Rollo May Revisited
This chapter explores Rollo May’s contention that creativity takes place in an intermediate zone, between subject and object, with an act of...
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Echo
Echo (gr. Ἠχώ, dor. Ἀχώ) ist eine Bergnymphe (Oreade; s. Kap. 98) der griechischen Mythologie, Tochter des Helikon und der Gaia, die seit...
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Christabel
Die zwischen 1798 und 1801 geschriebene romantische Verserzählung wäre beinahe in die zweite Auflage der Lyrical Ballads (1800) aufgenommen worden,...
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‘Lady Other, Lady Mine’: Angles of Vision and the Materialist Self in Sinéad Morrissey’s Parallax
In her poetry, Sinéad Morrisey has been preoccupied with notions of stability and motion ever since her debut collection There was a Fire in...
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Introduction: David Bowie and Romanticism
The Introduction to David Bowie and Romanticism establishes connections between David Bowie and Romanticism in Bowie’s life and work, defining...
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Conclusion: The Sublime in Coleridge, Kristeva, Adorno, and Rancière
This chapter compiles and extends insights on the sublime and the four authors from previous chapters, according to three themes: politics, religion...
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Keats as a Reader of Novels
Although Keats’s intertextual dialogues with other literary works have been extensively explored, one genre that has been almost completely neglected...
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Minds and Bodies
A. S. Byatt’s ‘Frederica’ quartet of novels, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life (1985), Babel Tower (1996) and A Whistling Woman (2002), are...
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Das lyrische Werk
Coleridge, dessen umfangreiches Werk theologische, philosophische, politische, literaturkritische Texte und Notizbücher ebenso wie ein umfangreiches...
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Akenside, Mark: The Pleasures of Imagination
Das 1744 publizierte philosophische Lehrgedicht entwickelt eine Theorie der Ästhetik. Beeinflusst von Joseph Addisons Essays zur Imagination und...
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Chapter 2: Walcott, Wordsworth, and the Extinction of Sense
This chapter examines Derek Walcott’s negotiation with the aesthetic tradition and his development of an emancipated poetics or ‘sense’ of the world....
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More Than a Canon: Lists of Contents in British Poetry Anthologies
Criticism frequently questions the aesthetic or narrative qualities of lists and assigns them a primarily pragmatic function. The list (or table) of...
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Hirte/Herde
Das in Idyllen dargestellte und geformte Verhältnis von Hirte und Herde ermöglicht historisch wie systematisch zahlreiche Verbindungslinien der...
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Poetry, Authorship, and Attribution
When considering the authorship of an early modern poem, it is important distinguish between ascriptions, written attestations of authorship in early...
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Drug Use and Drug Literature from the Eighteenth Century to David Bowie
“Drug Use and Drug Literature from the Eighteenth Century to David Bowie” examines Bowie’s drug use in the early 1970s, surveying drug literature...
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“on Every one of these Books I wrote my Opinions”: Re-assessing Blake’s Marginalia
Blake’s manuscript notes in the margins of his books have been relatively less studied for their own sake and often used as padding for biographical...
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The Style Historic: The Gothic Line from the Lake Poets to William Morris
This chapter discusses the continuities and contrasts between “Gothic Romanticism” and “Victorian Medievalism,” focusing on the linked and parallel...
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Belfast: Heaney in the 1960s
Chapter 2 examines the formative period of Heaney’s education at Queen’s University 1957–61 and his...