Awful Parenthesis : : Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry / / Anne C. McCarthy.
Whether the rapt trances of Romanticism or the corpse-like figures that confounded Victorian science and religion, nineteenth-century depictions of bodies in suspended animation are read as manifestations of broader concerns about the unknowable in Anne C. McCarthy’s Awful Parenthesis. Examining var...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Approaching Suspension
- 1. Coleridge, Suspension, and the Sublime
- 2. Semblances of Truth in “Christabel” and Aids to Refl ection
- 3. Ecstatic Suspension in Shelley’s “Universe of Things”
- 4. Tennyson and the Rhetoric of Suspended Animation
- 5. Christina Rossetti’s Poetic Faith
- Conclusion: Over, Again
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index