Awful Parenthesis : Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry.
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- 9781487516284
- 821/.809
- PR590 .M333 2018
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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