Personification and the Sublime : : Milton to Coleridge / / Steven Knapp.
Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas into people--or, worse, turning people into i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Coleridge on Allegory and Violence
- 2 Milton's Allegory of Sin and Death in Eighteenth-Century Criticism
- 3 Sublime Personification
- 4 Wordsworth and the Limits of Allegory
- Epilogue: Literal and Figurative Agency in Paradise Lost
- Abbreviations. Notes. Index
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index