Coleridge's Afterlives

by Vigus, James; Wright, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780230008281
• ISBN10: 0230008283
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In this volume, thirteen essays examine the full breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, imagination, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, and poetry. It offers new research to the scholar, maps complex territory, and spans traditional period barriers in literary studies.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. xiv
Coleridge's Textual Afterlives	p. 1
'Let not Bristol be ashamed'?: Coleridge's Afterlife in the Early Recollections of Joseph Cottle	p. 20
De Quincey on Coleridge	p. 36
Romantic Fragments and Victorian Pluralisms: From Lyrical Ballads to Guesses at Truth	p. 54
Gendering the Poet-Philosopher: Victorian 'Manliness' and Coleridgean 'Androgyny'	p. 65
'The Luther of Brahminism': Coleridge and the Reformation of Hinduism	p. 85
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Coleridge's American Legacy	p. 112
'I Have Strange Power of Speech': Narrative Compulsion after Coleridge	p. 128
The Sin in Sincerity: Ethics, Aesthetics, and a Critical Tradition from Coleridge to Wilde	p. 149
Coleridge's German 'Absolutism'	p. 171
The Consummate Symbol: A Coleridgean Tradition	p. 188
Imagination Amended: From Coleridge to Collingwood	p. 210
Eliot and Coleridge	p. 224
Afterword	p. 252
Select Bibliography	p. 259
Index	p. 262
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