Romantic Immanence - Elizabeth A. Fay

Romantic Immanence

Interventions in Alterity, 1780–1840
Buch | Softcover
270 Seiten
2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9475-3 (ISBN)
31,80 inkl. MwSt
Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.
Romantic Immanence examines literary examples of an alternative experience of otherness—an experience of alterity the Romantics understood as an embodied, immanent encounter with raw reality. The Romantics' enthusiasm for encounters in nature and the imagination that exceeded the limits of rational thought is well known. Yet these encounters have largely been interpreted in terms of the sublime or the Gothic. Drawing attention to the influence of Spinozist and Stoic philosophy on Romantic thought and aesthetics, Elizabeth A. Fay argues that immanence was another, perhaps even more important, form of alterity, particularly during this era of social and political upheaval. Investigating works such as Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journals, and Percy Shelley's Triumph of Life alongside Schelling's unfinished Ages of the World and Schlegel's Athenaeum Fragments, Fay demonstrates how Romantic immanence, despite going largely unrecognized with the loss of its initial context, remains vividly present in these works.

Elizabeth A. Fay is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism and Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism, among other books.

Acknowledgments
Spinozist Alterity and British Romanticism

Section I Corporeals: Embodied Egos

1. Blake’s Mythical Interval

2. Coleridge’s Wilding

Section II Corporeals: Embodied Difference

3. Barbauld’s Sisters: Immanent Bodies

Section III Incorporeals: Dream Visions and Nightmares

4. Percy Shelley’s Immanent Language

5. De Quincey’s Eventful Dreams

Section IV Corporeal Bias: Bodies as Incorporeals

Epilogue Immanence and Racial Alterity
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4384-9475-0 / 1438494750
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-9475-3 / 9781438494753
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