Awful Parenthesis : Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry.
McCarthy, Anne C.
Awful Parenthesis : Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (229 pages)
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Approaching Suspension -- 1 Coleridge, Suspension, and the Sublime -- 2 Semblances of Truth in "Christabel" and Aids to Reflection -- 3 Ecstatic Suspension in Shelley's "Universe of Things" -- 4 Tennyson and the Rhetoric of Suspended Animation -- 5 Christina Rossetti's Poetic Faith -- Conclusion: Over, Again -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Examining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of nineteenth-century poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, Anne C. McCarthy shares important insights into the cultural fascination with the sublime.
9781487516284
Electronic books.
PR590 .M333 2018
821/.809
Awful Parenthesis : Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (229 pages)
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Approaching Suspension -- 1 Coleridge, Suspension, and the Sublime -- 2 Semblances of Truth in "Christabel" and Aids to Reflection -- 3 Ecstatic Suspension in Shelley's "Universe of Things" -- 4 Tennyson and the Rhetoric of Suspended Animation -- 5 Christina Rossetti's Poetic Faith -- Conclusion: Over, Again -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Examining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of nineteenth-century poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, Anne C. McCarthy shares important insights into the cultural fascination with the sublime.
9781487516284
Electronic books.
PR590 .M333 2018
821/.809