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Awful Parenthesis : Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781487516284
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Awful ParenthesisDDC classification:
  • 821/.809
LOC classification:
  • PR590 .M333 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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