Coleridge, Language and the Sublime From Transcendence to Finitude

by Stokes, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780230278110
• ISBN10: 0230278116
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the sublime, showing him to have a compelling position in an ongoing conversation about finitude. Drawing on close readings of both his poetry and prose, it depicts Coleridge as a thinker of "the limit" with contemporary force.

Author Biography

Christopher Stokes is Assistant Lecture in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Abbreviations and Textual Note	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Language, Longinus, Emotion
'Violently Agitated by a Real Passion': Longinus and Coleridge's Effusions	p. 17
'The Self-Watching Subtilizing Mind': the Impassioned Self in the 1798 Fears in Solitude Quarto	p. 39
Terror, Burke, Ethics
'Cruel Wrongs and Strange Distress': an Ethical Terror-Sublime in 'The Destiny of Nations'	p. 65
'My Soul in Agony': The Terrors of Subjectivity in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'	p. 85
Representation, Kant, Theology
'Ye signs and wonders of the element! Utter forth God': Divine Presence and Divine Withdrawal in the Natural Sublime	p. 111
'What never is but only is to be': the Ontology of the Coleridgean Sublime	p. 134
Conclusion
'A Specimen of the Sublime dashed to pieces': Sublimity in the Biographia Literaria and the Limbo Constellation	p. 159
Notes	p. 180
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 210
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