Christopher Stokes

Romantic Prayer

Reinventing the Poetics of Devotion, 1773-1832

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Produktbeschreibung

The first study to treat poetry of the Romantic period through the motif of prayer, it covers a range of canonical writers to illustrate how prayer is central to literature's engagement with a secular age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780198857808
• ISBN-10: 0198857802
• Artikelnr.: 59881921

Autorenporträt

Christopher Stokes is a Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature with the University of Exeter. His research spans canonical Romanticism, women writers of the Romantic era, and Quaker poetry, and he has a specific interest in the intersection of religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. He is the author of Coleridge, Language and the Sublime (2011) and has published widely in leading international journals such as Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and The Journal of Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Theology of Prayer: Reasonable Devotion, Rational Dissent, and
the Evangelical Revival
* 2: 'The solitary saint walks forth to meditate at even-tide':
Evangelical Prayer and Interiority in William Cowper
* 3: 'Till all my sense is lost in infinite': Contemplation, Affect and
Rational Dissenting Prayer in Barbauld
* 4: 'Hence the necessity of Prayer -': Coleridge and the Reasoning of
Devotion, 1794-1832
* 5: 'This prayer I make': Hesitant Devotions in Wordsworth's Poetry
* 6: 'Too late for antique vows': Scepticism, Elegy and Romance in
Keatsian Prayer
* 7: 'Unlike the God of human Error': The End of Prayer in Shelley and
Byron
* Afterword