Coleridge's Visionary Languages

by Fulford, Tim; Paley, Morton D.

• ISBN13: 9780859913881
• ISBN10: 0859913880
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

Coleridge's Visionary Languagesis a collection of essays by some of the leading scholars of Romanticism. They take as their theme Coleridge's ability to transform discourses from within and to envisage new relations between them. Working with insights provided by recent developments in literary theory, in feminism, and in historical analysis, these essays present Coleridge as a poet and thinker deeply concerned to transform the establishedlanguages of power to make possible a more deeply and justly based understanding of men, women, and society. The book ranges across the full length and breadth of Coleridge's intellectual life and will be of interest to all those wishing to question Romanticism's engagement with its own andour times.Contributors: PETER J. KITSON, JAN PLUG, JOHN DREW, J.C.C. MAYS, ANYA TAYLOR, DENISE DEGROIS, E.S. SHAFFER, STEPHEN PRICKET, JONATHANBATE, DAVID S. MAILL, THOMAS McFARLAND, MARY ANNE PERKINS. TIM FULFORDis a Fellow and Lecturer in English at Jesus College, Cambridge. MORTON D. PALEYis a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
The Whore of Babylon and the Woman in White: Coleridge's Radical Unitarian Language	p. 1
Coleridge and the Apocalyptic Grotesque	p. 15
The Rhetoric of Secrecy: Figures of the Self in 'Frost at Midnight'	p. 27
'Kubla Khan' and Orientalism	p. 41
Coleridge's 'Love': 'All He Can Manage, More Than He Could'	p. 49
Coleridge and the Royal Family: The Politics of Androgyny	p. 67
Coleridge, Wollstonecraft, and the Rights of Women	p. 83
Coleridge on Human Communication	p. 99
Coleridge's Ekphrasis: Visionary Word-Painting	p. 111
The Ache in the Missing Limb: Coleridge and the Amputation of Meaning	p. 123
The Literature of Power: Coleridge and De Quincey	p. 137
'I See It Feelingly': Coleridge's Debt to Hartley	p. 151
Aspects of Coleridge's Distinction Between Reason and Understanding	p. 165
Coleridge, Language and History	p. 181
A List of the Publications of J. B. Beer	p. 195
Notes on the Contributors	p. 199
Tabula Gratulatoria	p. 201
Index	p. 203
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