The Design of Biographia Literaria

by Catherine M. Wallace

Overview

First published in 1983, this book examines a work whose intricacies have baffled and infuriated generations of readers and proposes a theory of Coleridge’s writing habits that "explain(s) his explanation". The author painstakingly analyses the Biographia’s organising structure distinguishing between the daring conception and often inept execution of Coleridge’s idea of critical discourse. It is argued that Coleridge’s autobiographical format present a richly metaphorical "self" whose literary life has led to the now-famous doctrine of secondary imagination. The author’s command of Coleridge scholarship will shed new light on the Biographia for specialists and non-specialists alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317209225
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/17/2016
Series:	RLE: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	664 KB

About the Author

Catherine Miles Wallace

Table of Contents

Preface, Catherine Miles Wallace; Chapter 1 The Chamois Hunter, Catherine Miles Wallace; Chapter 2 Starting-Points, Catherine Miles Wallace; Chapter 3 The Associative Fancy, Catherine Miles Wallace; Chapter 4 Imagination’s Synthesis of Being and Knowing, Catherine Miles Wallace; Chapter 5 Imagination, Philosophic Consciousness and the ‘True and Original Realism’, Catherine Miles Wallace; Chapter 6 Poetry, Catherine Miles Wallace; Chapter 7 Wordsworth and Poetic Diction, Catherine Miles Wallace; Chapter 8 Wordsworth and the Imaginative Part icular, Catherine Miles Wallace; Chapter 9 Conclusion, Catherine Miles Wallace;