Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge: Lectures on Shakespeare (1811-1819)

Herausgeber: Roberts, Adam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'A genuinely readable, user-friendly edition of Coleridge's lectures on Shakespeare was long overdue. As the first modern edition of these indispensable lectures to provide exactly the right amount of expert commentary and explication without being obtrusive, this is destined to become the standard, unrivalled edition for students, lecturers and the general reader alike.' Kiernan Ryan, Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge A newly edited readers' edition of Coleridge's foundational lectures on Shakespeare This volume comprises a freshly composed edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1811-1812 lectures on Shakespeare and Milton and 1818-1819 lectures on Shakespeare. Coleridge is a foundational figure in Shakespeare criticism, and remains to this day one of the most incisive and best. Nobody interested in Coleridge, Shakespeare or literary criticism more broadly can afford to be ignorant of Coleridge's famous lectures. Key Features . A new edition of one of Romanticism's - and English Literature's - most influential critic's lectures on Shakespeare . Newly edited to take advantage of modern scholarship and new electronic research resources: all hitherto untraced allusions and quotations have been identified . Presents the lectures as works of fluent and readable prose, rather than notes or shorthand jotting as in other editions . Follows the same format, and embodies many of the specific features, as the editor's new edition of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (2014) Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature, Royal Holloway University of London. He has published widely on Romantic and Victorian literature. He has previously edited Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (2014), and is the author of the monograph Landor's Cleanness: a Study of Walter Savage Landor (2014). He is also a creative writer, the author of (to date) sixteen science fiction novels, eight parodies, two novellas and a collection of short stories. Cover image: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Washington Allston, 1814 © National Gallery. London. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com [please note new web address] ISBN 978-1-4744-1378-7 Barcode

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781474413787
• ISBN-10: 1474413781
• Artikelnr.: 45984048

Autorenporträt

Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature, Royal Holloway University of London. He has previously edited Coleridge's Biographia Literaria for Edinburgh University Press (2014), and is the author of the monograph Landor's Cleanness: a Study of Walter Savage Landor (OUP 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Lectures: the 1811-12 Series
Lectures: the 1818-19 Series
Lectures: the 1819 Series
Appendix.