Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life

by Nicholas Roe

Overview

Bringing together an exciting variety of approaches, the fifteen authors here direct attention to Coleridge's relation to the "sciences of life"—a term which embraces a much broader field than modern "science." Accordingly there are essays on Coleridge and the vitalist debate, political and social ideas, race theories, dissent, literary relations, and language, as well as on his relation to contemporary optics, chemistry, geology, anatomy, and medicine. Taken all together, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life marks a vital and exciting development in Coleridge criticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198187233
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/10/2002
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

University of St Andrews

Table of Contents

PrefaceIllustrationsAbbreviations1. Introduction, Nicholas Roe2. Myths of Community in the Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998: The Commonwealth and the Constitution, Elinor Shaffer3. The Political Sciences of Life: From American Pantisocracy to British Romanticism, Kenneth R. Johnston4. Jews, Jubilee, and Harringtonianism in Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth: Republican Conversions, Susan Manly5. Coleridge and 'the Oran utan hypothesis': Romantic Theories of Race, Peter J. Kitson6. Theorizing Golgotha: Coleridge, Race Theory, and the Skull Beneath the Skin, Tim Fulford7. Kubla Khan and the Theory of the Earth, James C. McKusick8. Coleridge's Abstruse Researches, Neil Vickers9. Space for Speculation: Coleridge, Barbauld, and the Poetics of Priestley, Jane Stabler10. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein, Beth Lau11. Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sun-rise' and the Voice Not Heard, Angela Esterhammer12. Coleridge and the End of Autonomy, Seamus Perry13. Historicist Readings of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Raimondo Modiano14. Coleridge's Secret Ministry: Historical Reading and Editorial Theory, Kelvin Everest15. How Shall We Write the Life of Coleridge?, John BeerContributorsIndex

Editorial Reviews

"The essays are refreshingly well written and free of jargon, and the bibliography and index are excellent."—Choice

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