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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838242203321

Autore

McCarthy Anne C.

Titolo

Awful Parenthesis : Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry / / Anne C. McCarthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4875-1629-0

1-4875-1628-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Disciplina

821.709

Soggetti

English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Sublime, The, in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Approaching Suspension; 1 Coleridge, Suspension, and the Sublime; 2 Semblances of Truth in "Christabel" and Aids to Reflection; 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.

Sommario/riassunto

Examining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of nineteenth-century poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, Anne C. McCarthy shares important insights into the cultural fascination with the sublime.