The revivifying word literature, philosophy, and the theory of life in Europe's romantic age
'What is not 'Life' that really is?' asked Coleridge, struggling, like many poets, philosophers, and scientists of Europe's Romantic age, to formulate a theory of life that explained the mysterious relation between dead material bodies and living, animate beings. Romantic in...
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Boydell & Brewer
2008
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: "The dead man's life": romantic reading and revivification
- "The sound which echoes in our soul": the romantic aesthetics of matter and spirit
- "Spirit thanks only through the body": materialist spiritualism in romantic Europe
- "The heavenly revelation of her spirit": Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther
- "O read for pity's sake!": Keat's Endymion
- "Graecum est, non legitur": Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris
- "Spiritual communication": Gautier's Spirite
- "Eat this scroll": Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas"
- "I sickened as I read": Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- "Those who, being dead, are yet alive": Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer
- "This hideous drama of revivification": Poe and the rhetoric of terror