George Berkeley And Romanticism

Author : Chris Townsend
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192662217

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George Berkeley and Romanticism by Chris Townsend Pdf

George Berkeley's mainstream legacy amongst critics and philosophers, from Samuel Johnson to Bertrand Russell, has tended to concern his claim that the objects of perception are in fact nothing more than our ideas. Yet there's more to Berkeley than idealism alone, and the poets now grouped under the label 'Romanticism' took up Berkeley's ideas in especially strange and surprising ways. As this book shows, the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley focused less on Berkeley's arguments for idealism than they did on his larger, empirically-derived claim that nature constitutes a kind of linguistic system. It is through that 'ghostly language' that we might come to know ourselves, each other, and even God. This book is a reappraisal of the role that Berkeley's ideas played in Romanticism, and it pursues his spiritualized philosophy across a range of key Romantic-period poems. But it is also a re-reading of Berkeley himself, as a thinker who was deeply concerned with language and with written—even literary—style. In that sense, it offers an incisive case study into the reception of philosophical ideas into the workings of poetry, and of the role of poetics within the history of ideas more broadly.

Author : Chris Townsend (Professor of English)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0191939269

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George Berkeley and Romanticism by Chris Townsend (Professor of English) Pdf

"George Berkeley’s mainstream legacy amongst critics and philosophers, from Samuel Johnson to Bertrand Russell, has tended to focus on his claim that the objects of our perception are in fact nothing more than our ideas. Yet there’s more to Berkeley than idealism alone, and the poets we now group under the label ‘Romanticism’ took up Berkeley’s ideas in especially strange and surprising ways. As this book shows, the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley focused less on Berkeley’s arguments for idealism than they did on his larger, empirically derived claim that nature constitutes a kind of linguistic system. It is through that ‘ghostly language’ that we might come to know ourselves, each other, and even God. This book is a reappraisal of the role that Berkeley’s ideas played in Romanticism, and it pursues his spiritualized philosophy across a range of key Romantic-period poems. But it is also a rereading of Berkeley himself, as a thinker who was deeply concerned with language and with written—even literary—style. In that sense it offers an incisive case study into the reception of philosophical ideas into the workings of poetry, and of the role of poetics within the history of ideas more broadly"--Publisher's description.

Author : Leonard M. Trawick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : English prose literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3924349

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Backgrounds of Romanticism by Leonard M. Trawick Pdf

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527592926

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Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime, 2nd Edition by Craig R. Smith Pdf

Relying on the author’s established expertise in rhetoric and political communication, this book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory from the late 18th and early 19th centuries to provide a foundation for a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our own time. In the process, it uses a unique methodology to correct misconceptions about the rhetorical theories of many writers. Using a dialectical approach, the early chapters trace Romanticism through its opposition to the industrial revolution and the Enlightenment, back through Humanism and its opposition to Scholasticism, to its roots in St. Augustine’s writing. These chapters include a revisionist analysis of the church’s treatment of Galileo in the course of showing how difficult it was for scientific study to be accepted in Scholastic circles. The study goes on to argue that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke were bridge figures to the Romantic Era. This move throws new light on exemplary painters, composers, writers and orators of the Romantic Era, who are examined in chapters eight and nine. Chapter ten focuses on Percy Bysshe Shelley and his development of the rhetorical poem, and thereby provides a new genre in the Romantic catalogue. Chapter Eleven turns to the Romantic rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair and Thomas De Quincey to empower those seeking to save the environment. The concluding chapter then synthesizes their theories with relevant contemporary rhetorical theories thereby constructing a Neo-Romantic theory for our own time. In the process, the book links the Romantics’ love of nature to the current environmental crisis.

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781527521148

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Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime by Craig R. Smith Pdf

Relying on the author’s established expertise in rhetorical theory and political communication, this book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to provide a foundation for a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our own time. In the process, it uses a unique methodology to correct misconceptions about many Romantic writers. The methodology of the early chapters uses a dialectical approach to trace Romanticism and its opposition, the Enlightenment, back through Humanism and its opposition, Scholasticism, to St. Augustine. These chapters include a revisionist analysis of the church’s treatment of Galileo in the course of showing how difficult it was for scientific study to be accepted in the academic world. The study also re-conceptualizes Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke as bridge figures to the Romantic Era instead of as Enlightenment figures. This move throws new light on the major artists of the Romantic Era, who are examined in chapters seven and eight. Chapter nine focuses on Percy Bysshe Shelley and his development of the rhetorical poem, and thereby provides a new genre in the Romantic catalogue. Chapter ten uses the foregoing to analyse and reconceptualize the rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair and Thomas De Quincey. The concluding chapter then synthesizes their theories with relevant contemporary rhetorical theories thereby constructing a Neo-Romantic theory for our own time. In the process, this book links the Romantics’ love of nature to the current environmental crisis.

Author : Elizabeth A. Dolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351901338

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Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era by Elizabeth A. Dolan Pdf

Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth A. Dolan shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley experimented with aesthetic and scientific visual methods in order to expose the social structures underlying suffering. Dolan's exploration of illness, healing, and social justice in the writings of these three authors depends on two major questions: How do women writers' innovations in literary form make visible previously unseen suffering? And, how do women authors portray embodied vision to claim literary authority? Dolan's research encompasses a wide range of primary sources in science and medicine, including nosology, health travel, botany, and ophthalmology, allowing her to map the resonances and disjunctions between medical theory and literature. This in turn points towards a revisioning of enduring themes in Romanticism such as the figure of the Romantic poet, the relationship between the mind and nature, sensibility and sympathy, solitude and sociability, landscape aesthetics, the reform novel, and Romantic-era science. Dolan's book is distinguished by its deep engagement with several disciplines and genres, making it a key text for understanding Romanticism, the history of medicine, and the position of the woman writer during the period.

Author : Ann R Hawkins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1297 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000743760

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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II by Ann R Hawkins Pdf

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

Author : Alex Watson,Laurence Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811330018

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British Romanticism in Asia by Alex Watson,Laurence Williams Pdf

This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Building on recent scholarship on “Global Romanticism”, it develops a reciprocal, cross-cultural model of scholarship, in which “Asian Romanticism” is recognized as itself an important part of the Romantic literary tradition. It explores the connections between canonical British Romantic authors (including Austen, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth) and prominent Asian writers (including Natsume Sōseki, Rabindranath Tagore, and Xu Zhimo). The essays also challenge Eurocentric assumptions about reception and periodization, exploring how, since the early nineteenth century, British Romanticism has been creatively adapted and transformed by Asian writers.

Author : Gavin Budge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137284310

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Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural by Gavin Budge Pdf

This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.

Author : Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482844

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The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion by Jeffrey W. Barbeau Pdf

The first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life in the British Romantic period.

Author : Evan Gottlieb
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611486261

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Global Romanticism by Evan Gottlieb Pdf

For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual course by exploring the literature and culture of the Romantic era through the lens of long-durational globalization. In a series of wide-ranging but complementary chapters, this provocative collection of essays by established scholars makes the case that many British Romantics were committed to conceptualizing their world as an increasingly interconnected whole. In doing so, moreover, they were both responding to and shaping early modern versions of the transnational economic, political, sociocultural, and ecological forces known today as globalization.

Author : Ann R Hawkins,Stephanie Eckroth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000748536

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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II vol 6 by Ann R Hawkins,Stephanie Eckroth Pdf

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

Author : Andrew Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107071902

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The Orient and the Young Romantics by Andrew Warren Pdf

This book explores how the Romantic poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats engages with tales and themes of the Orient.

Author : M. Lussier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230597501

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Romantic Dynamics by M. Lussier Pdf

Romantic Dynamics creatively collides English poetry with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the 'new physics' of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity, and complexity in a chaotic universe. This interdisciplinary work traces the elaboration of dynamical models of cosmos and consciousness in works by Blake, Byron, Coleridge, the Shelleys and Wordsworth, finding in those works an exploration of the interpenetration of psyche and phenomena. This model, the author argues, establishes a new metaphoric terrain liberated from the classical mechanics of Newtonian thought and more easily traversed with models articulated by Bohr, Einstein and Hawking.

Author : A. Dick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137292926

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Romanticism and the Gold Standard by A. Dick Pdf

Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance of monetary policy and economic debate to the culture and literature of Britain during the age of Romanticism.