Wordsworth Before Coleridge: The Growth of the Poet's Philosophical Mind, 1785-1797

ISBN-13: 9780367667108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 180 str.

Mark Bruhn

Opis

Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth’s intellectual development and thereby overturns a century-old consensus that derives his most important philosophical ideas from Coleridge.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

A Note on Texts and Citations

Introduction

Chapter One: An Independent Mind? Wordsworth at Cambridge, 1787-1791

Chapter Two: Growing Out of Pope: An Essay on Man in Wordsworth’s Philosophical Poetry, 1785-1794

Chapter Three: Beyond Godwin: Elements in Wordsworth’s Politics, 1794

Chapter Four: Toward The Prelude: Elements in An Evening Walk, 1794

Chapter Five: The Finishing of Wordsworth’s Philosophical Education, 1795-1797

Conclusion

References

Index

O autorze

Mark J. Bruhn, Professor of English at Regis University (Denver, Colorado), holds a PhD in English from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He is coeditor of Cognition, Literature, and History (Routledge, 2014) and guest editor of a special double-issue of Poetics Today on "Poetics and Cognitive Science" (2011). Bruhn has published widely on English literature from Chaucer and Spenser to Wallace Stevens and Margaret Atwood, and recent essays on Wordsworth in particular appear in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (2015), The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth (2015), and The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism (2017).