Wordsworth's Ethics
Title | Wordsworth's Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Potkay |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2015-03-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1421417022 |
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.
Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary
Title | Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Stephen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | English literature |
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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
Title | 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 PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Stephen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | English literature |
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The Excursion and Wordsworth's Iconography
Title | The Excursion and Wordsworth's Iconography PDF eBook |
Author | Brandon Chao-Chi Yen |
Publisher | Romantic Reconfigurations Stud |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1786941333 |
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.
Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion
Title | Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Risinger |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2021-09-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0691223122 |
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.
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth
Title | The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Gravil |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 897 |
Release | 2015-01-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 019101964X |
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.
Wordsworth and His Circle
Title | Wordsworth and His Circle PDF eBook |
Author | David Watson Rannie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | English literature |
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