Opium And The Romantic Imagination
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Author |
: Alethea Hayter |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0571254160 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780571254163 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Opium and the Romantic Imagination by : Alethea Hayter
Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered. In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.
Author |
: Alethea Hayter |
Publisher |
: Borgo Press |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1989-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0809570939 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780809570935 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Opium and the Romantic Imagination by : Alethea Hayter
Author |
: Cecil Maurice Bowra |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 1949-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674730097 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674730090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Romantic Imagination by : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Author |
: Edward Lockspeiser |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4927412 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination by : Edward Lockspeiser
Author |
: Thomas de Quincey |
Publisher |
: Gottfried & Fritz |
Total Pages |
: 110 |
Release |
: 2015-06-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by : Thomas de Quincey
A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Author |
: Arts Council of Great Britain |
Publisher |
: London : Arts Council |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015013664993 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination: an Exhibition by : Arts Council of Great Britain
Author |
: Amitav Ghosh |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 565 |
Release |
: 2009-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429930819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429930810 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sea of Poppies by : Amitav Ghosh
The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]). At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).
Author |
: Jennifer Ford |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521583169 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521583160 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coleridge on Dreaming by : Jennifer Ford
This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer Ford's emphasis is on analysing the ways in which dreaming processes were construed, by Coleridge in his dream readings, and by his contemporaries in a range of poetic and medical works. This historical exploration of dreams and dreaming allows Ford to explore previously neglected contemporary debates on 'the medical imagination'. By avoiding purely biographical or psychoanalytic approaches, she reveals instead a rich historical context for the ways in which the most mysterious workings of the Romantic imagination were explored and understood.
Author |
: Nigel Leask |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2004-06-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521604443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521604444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis British Romantic Writers and the East by : Nigel Leask
Studies the work of Byron, Shelley and De Quincey and other Romantic writers in relation to Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'.
Author |
: Milligan |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2012-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813934680 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813934686 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pleasures and Pains by : Milligan
Use front of jacket for front paperback cover Back paperback cover camera-ready copy on sheet 1 Paperback title page and copyright page included to substitute for cloth edition pages. Please call Mark Saunders at 434-924-6064 if questions arise