A Modern Coleridge

Andrea Timár is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Her articles on Coleridge appeared in The Wordsworth Circle, The Coleridge Bulletin, Notes and Queries, and Critical Engagements: a Journal of Criticism and Theory.

Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction PART I: CULTIVATION 1. Cultivating Reason and the Will 2. The Shaping Spirit of Education 3. Staging Education: 'The Appeal to Law'. Wordsworth's 'Peter Bell'. And 'The Ancient Mariner' 4. Sympathy: Adam Smith and Coleridgean Education PART II: ADDICTION 5. Re-reading Culture and Addiction: Coleridge's Writings on Civilisation and Walter Benjamin's Analysis of Modernity and the Addict 6. Craving for Novelties - Craving for Novels: The Politics of Intoxicated Reading 7. He 'did not write, he acted poems': Kubla Khan, Luther and Rousseau PART III: HABITS 8. 'habits of active industry' (AI, 49) 9. The Habit of 'abstruse research': 'Dejection: and Ode' Conclusion: Cultivation through Love: 'Effusion XXXV' and 'The Eolian Harp' Bibliography Index