Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age write by Deryl Davis. This book was released on 2023-11-17. Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time (1827), one of the best- selling long poems of the nineteenth century, which has been almost entirely forgotten today. Widely read in the United States and across the British Empire, the poem’s combination of evangelical Calvinism, High Romanticism, and native Scottishness proved irresistible to many readers. This monograph traces the poem’s origins as a defense of Biblical authority, divine providence, and religious orthodoxy (against figures like Byron and Joseph Priestley) and explores the reasons for The Course of Time’s enormous, decades- long popularity and later precipitous decline. A close reading of the poem and an examination of its reception history offers readers important insights into the dynamic relationship between religion and wider culture in the nineteenth century, the uses of literature as a vehicle for theological argument and theodicy, and the important but often overlooked role that religion played in literary— and, particularly, Scottish— Romanticism. This work will appeal to scholars of religious history, literary history, Evangelicalism, Romanticism, Scottish literature, and nineteenth- century culture.
Robert Pollok's The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age
Robert Pollok's The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robert Pollok's The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age write by Deryl Davis. This book was released on 2024. Robert Pollok's The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok's religious epic The Course of Time (1827), one of the best-selling long poems of the nineteenth century, which has been almost entirely forgotten today. Widely read in the United States and across the British Empire, the poem's combination of evangelical Calvinism, High Romanticism, and native Scottishness proved irresistible to many readers. This monograph traces the poem's origins as a defense of Biblical authority, divine providence, and religious orthodoxy (against figures like Byron and Joseph Priestley) and explores the reasons for The Course of Time's enormous, decades-long popularity and later precipitous decline. A close reading of the poem and an examination of its reception history offers readers important insights into the dynamic relationship between religion and wider culture in the nineteenth century, the uses of literature as a vehicle for theological argument and theodicy, and the important but often overlooked role that religion played in literary---and particularly, Scottish---Romanticism. This work will appeal to scholars of religious history, literary history, Evangelicalism, Romanticism, Scottish literature, and nineteenth-century culture"--
Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry
Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry write by Richard E. Matlak. This book was released on 2024-07-11. Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based upon the testimony of Thomas Carlyle, most biographers acknowledge that Wordsworth witnessed the beheading of the journalist Antoine Gorsas in October 1793 during the Reign of Terror. But they go no further. This study reads the Poet’s reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated by guilt for abandoning his French lover and their child a year earlier. Following a chronological arc from October 1793, when the trauma began, until its conclusion in October 1803, when Wordsworth became a poet-soldier, I examine poetic works from The Borderers (1796), the “Discharged Soldier’ (1798), the Two-Part Prelude (1799), Home at Grasmere (1800), and the Liberty sonnets (1803), to follow the Poet working through anxiety, fear, and remorse to a resolution.
Romantic Futures
Romantic Futures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romantic Futures write by Evy Varsamopoulou. This book was released on 2023-12-15. Romantic Futures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Romantic Futures is a collection which explores the significance of futurity in British Romanticism from a comparative perspective in three defining manifestations: the future as conscious legacy, by which is meant both influences or continuities and the (anticipations of) impact on the future; the future as revealed by prophecy, whether via religious figures or superstitions; and a meditation on the temporality of the future, or the future as a concept. The book brings together a wide range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives: from utopian studies, history, religion, and cultural theory to future studies, neuroscience, video games, and art history. Aiming to increase and diversify current critical engagement and highlight the contemporary relevance of the Romantics’ multivalent preoccupation with the future, this collection renews the dialogue between Romanticism and our critical relation to its contemporaneity, especially as it speaks to current understandings of the future in the sciences, arts, and humanities.
Reading Keats’s Poetry
Reading Keats’s Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Keats’s Poetry write by Merve Günday. This book was released on 2024-07-04. Reading Keats’s Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book claims that Keats’s poetry is a reaction against the discourse of modernity which traumatized the human subject by creating a divide between human and nature, subject and object. It argues that by transcending this divide and acknowledging the agency of both subject and object, Keats makes an ideological statement and offers a new site of existence or relationality to readers. This site also implies a response to the accusations that the Romantics were not interested in the realities of their time. What Keats does is to give an aestheticized response to the hardcore facts of his time. Departing from previous studies due to its emphasis on subjectivity and relationality, the book discusses Keats with regard to post/non-anthropocentric, alternative subject positions and subject-object relations in his “Ode to a Nightingale,” “In drear nighted December,” “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil,” “Lamia,” “La Belle Dame sans Mercy,” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Drawing on Lacanian and Braidottian epistemologies in its discussion of the intricacy between the imaginary and the symbolic, the irruption of the psychotic into the symbolic, and the agency of the object on the subject in Keats’s poetry, the book suggests that the inner dynamics of both the subject and the object acquire agency, which shatters Oneness and totality assumed in the Cartesian self.
