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Author |
: Adam Potkay |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2015-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421417028 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421417022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wordsworth's Ethics by : Adam Potkay
A comprehensive examination that breathes new life into Wordsworth and the ethical concerns that were vital to his nineteenth-century readers. Why read Wordsworth’s poetry—indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth’s thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in both well-known and more obscure writings. Wordsworth's Ethics is a comprehensive examination of the Romantic poet’s work, delving into his desire to understand the source and scope of our ethical obligations. Adam Potkay finds that Wordsworth consistently rejects the kind of impersonal utilitarianism that was espoused by his contemporaries James Mill and Jeremy Bentham in favor of a view of ethics founded in relationships with particular persons and things. The discussion proceeds chronologically through Wordsworth’s career as a writer—from his juvenilia through his poems of the 1830s and '40s—providing a valuable introduction to the poet’s work. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy.
Author |
: Leslie Stephen |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: IOWA:31858018053433 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary by : Leslie Stephen
Author |
: Leslie Stephen |
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Total Pages |
: 426 |
Release |
: 1904 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105117026398 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary conversations. Macaulay. Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley by : Leslie Stephen
Author |
: Brandon Chao-Chi Yen |
Publisher |
: Romantic Reconfigurations Stud |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786941336 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786941333 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Excursion and Wordsworth's Iconography by : Brandon Chao-Chi Yen
Through a wide variety of verbal and pictorial references, this book demonstrates how Wordsworth's iconography, albeit apparently 'collateral', makes crucial contributions to his central arguments and preoccupations in The Excursion, as well as in his other major works.
Author |
: Jacob Risinger |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2021-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691223124 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691223122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion by : Jacob Risinger
An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic period Stoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adopting “powerful feeling” as the bedrock of poetry. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion refutes this notion by demonstrating that Romantic-era writers devoted a surprising amount of attention to Stoicism and its dispassionate mandate. Jacob Risinger explores the subterranean but vital life of Stoic philosophy in British and American Romanticism, from William Wordsworth to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He shows that the Romantic era—the period most polemically invested in emotion as art’s mainspring—was also captivated by the Stoic idea that aesthetic and ethical judgment demanded the transcendence of emotion. Risinger argues that Stoicism was a central preoccupation in a world destabilized by the French Revolution. Creating a space for the skeptical evaluation of feeling and affect, Stoicism became the subject of poetic reflection, ethical inquiry, and political debate. Risinger examines Wordsworth’s affinity with William Godwin’s evolving philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s attempt to embed Stoic reflection within the lyric itself, Lord Byron’s depiction of Stoicism at the level of character, visions of a Stoic future in novels by Mary Shelley and Sarah Scott, and the Stoic foundations of Emerson’s arguments for self-reliance and social reform. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion illustrates how the austerity of ancient philosophy was not inimical to Romantic creativity, but vital to its realization.
Author |
: Richard Gravil |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 897 |
Release |
: 2015-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191019647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019101964X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth by : Richard Gravil
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.
Author |
: David Watson Rannie |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044086795184 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wordsworth and His Circle by : David Watson Rannie
Author |
: William Wordsworth |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 494 |
Release |
: 1924 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000120960426 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poems of William Wordsworth by : William Wordsworth
Author |
: Alan Grob |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1961 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89091256420 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wordsworth's Moral Universe by : Alan Grob
Author |
: Robert M. Ryan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198757351 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198757352 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Charles Darwin and the Church of Wordsworth by : Robert M. Ryan
Charles Darwin and the Church of William Wordsworth is a study of the cultural connections between two of the nineteenth century's most influential figures, Charles Darwin and William Wordsworth. When Darwin published On the Origin of Species, his reading public's affective response to the natural world had already been profoundly influenced by William Wordsworth. Wordsworth presented nature as benign, harmonious, a source of moral inspiration and spiritual blessing, and a medium through which one might enter into communion with the Divine. Long after his death, he continued to be revered throughout the English-speaking world, not only as a great poet, but as a theologian with a broader following than any prelate and an appeal that transcended or ignored sectarian differences. For believers and skeptics alike, Wordsworth's poetry offered a readily accessible and intellectually respectable counterweight to Darwin's vision of a material universe evolving by fixed laws in which Divinity played no discernible role and where concepts like beauty and harmony were material conditions to be explained in scientific terms. Wordsworth's theology of nature became for many readers a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy, but it also provided an enriching context for the reception of evolutionary theory, aiding theists in their effort to reach an accommodation with the new science. As the nineteenth century's two most prominent theoreticians of nature's life, Wordsworth and Darwin competed for attention among those seeking to understand humanity's relationship with the natural world, and their disciples engaged in a productive, mutually transformative dialogue in which the poet's cultural authority influenced the way Darwin was received, and Darwinian science adjusted interpretation and evaluation of the poetry. Charles Darwin and the Church of William Wordsworth explores the broad cultural relationship between Wordsworth, Darwin, and their disciples, contextualizing them within wider discussions about the relationship between religion and science in the nineteenth century.