Chris Townsend

George Berkeley and Romanticism

Ghostly Language

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of philosopher George Berkeley's influence on British Romantic poetry, and especially the works of William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley that offers new readings of Berkeley's works and the development of his style as a writer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780192846785
• ISBN-10: 0192846787
• Artikelnr.: 66121969

Autorenporträt

Chris Townsend is a College Teaching Officer in English Literature at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, and a researcher working mainly on Romantic poetics and aesthetics. His published articles include work on rhythm in Keats, rhyme in Rossetti, and prose-borne pentameters in Woolf.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One
Introduction: Ghostly Language
1: Berkeley and the Language of Philosophy
Part Two
2: Spiritual Bodies and Mental Realities in Blake
3: Inside Outness in Coleridge
4: Wordsworth's Ghostly Language
5: Shelley's Uncreative Mind
Conclusion: Berkeley and Romanticism