Romantic Consciousness Blake to Mary Shelley
by Beer, JohnFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-10-03
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Revolutionary thinking at the end of the eighteenth century prompted major English writers to probe the riddle of human consciousness and the ways in which it might differ from "Being" in a divine or universal sense. In the first of two studies, John Beer traces this question in writings by Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and the impact of their ideas on successors such as Keats, De Quincey, Byron and the Shelleys; relevance to later figures such as the Cambridge Apostles and Tennyson is also discussed.
Author Biography
John Beer is Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | viii | ||
| Abbreviations | ix | ||
| Preface | xii | ||
| 1 Consciousness and the Mystery of Being | 1 | (11) | |
| 2 Blake's Fear of Non Entity | 12 | (9) | |
| 3 Coleridge, Wordsworth and 'Unknown Modes of Being' | 21 | (33) | |
| 4 Keats and the Highgate Nightingales | 54 | (24) | |
| 5 De Quincey and the Dark Sublime | 78 | (28) | |
| 6 Tennyson, the Cambridge Apostles and the Nature of 'Reality' | 106 | (28) | |
| 7 Shelley and Byron: Polarities of Being | 134 | (34) | |
| 8 Mary Shelley's Mediation | 168 | (11) | |
| Appendix: Wordsworth's Later Sense of Being | 179 | (5) | |
| Notes | 184 | (19) | |
| Index | 203 |
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