Romantic Aversions

by Kneale, J. Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780773518049
• ISBN10: 0773518045
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

In Romantic Aversions J. Douglas Kneale explicates the "double gesture" in the repression of the classical tradition by focusing on its rhetorical afterlife in the literary styles of Wordsworth and Coleridge. He provides new interpretations of both canonical and non-canonical texts and explores aspects of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's manuscripts and poems previously overlooked by scholars. Kneale combines original, close readings with the larger sweep of genre study to reveal new and unexpected convergences in the Romantic tradition.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Turns of Phrase: Aversion, Effusion, Expression	3	(8)
Apostrophe Reconsidered: Wordsworth's ``There Was a Boy''	11	(17)
``Between Poetry and Oratory'': Coleridge's Romantic Effusions	28	(22)
``Thou one dear Vale!'': Wordsworth and the Sympathies of Rhetoric	50	(21)
Coleridge's Emergent Occasion: ``To the Autumnal Moon''	71	(23)
Transport and Persuasion in Longinus and Wordsworth	94	(10)
Wordsworth in the Isle of Man	104	(11)
Symptom and Scene in Freud and Wordsworth	115	(20)
Gentle Hearts and Hands: Reading Wordsworth after Geoffrey Hartman	135	(20)
Notes	155	(38)
Works Cited	193	(20)
Index	213