The Resource Personification and the Sublime : Milton to Coleridge, Steven Knapp, (electronic resource)
Personification and the Sublime : Milton to Coleridge, Steven Knapp, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- 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 ideas. In this wide-ranging, carefully argued study, Steven Knapp explains the connection between personification and the aesthetics of the sublime. Personifications, such as Milton's controversial figures of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost, were seen to embody a unique combination of imaginative power and overt fictionality, and these, Knapp shows, were exactly the conflicting requirements of the sublime in general. He argues that the uneasiness readers felt toward sublime personifications was symptomatic of broader ambivalences toward archaic beliefs, political and religious violence, and poetic fiction as such. Drawing on recent interpretations of Romanticism, allegory, and the sublime, Knapp provides important new readings of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Kant, and William Collins. His provocative thesis sheds new light on the relationship between Romanticism and the eighteenth century
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Edition
- Reprint 2014
- Extent
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Contents
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- Epilogue: Literal and Figurative Agency in Paradise Lost
- Abbreviations. Notes. Index
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780674181670
- Label
- Personification and the Sublime : Milton to Coleridge
- Title
- Personification and the Sublime
- Title remainder
- Milton to Coleridge
- Statement of responsibility
- Steven Knapp
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Summary
- 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 ideas. In this wide-ranging, carefully argued study, Steven Knapp explains the connection between personification and the aesthetics of the sublime. Personifications, such as Milton's controversial figures of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost, were seen to embody a unique combination of imaginative power and overt fictionality, and these, Knapp shows, were exactly the conflicting requirements of the sublime in general. He argues that the uneasiness readers felt toward sublime personifications was symptomatic of broader ambivalences toward archaic beliefs, political and religious violence, and poetic fiction as such. Drawing on recent interpretations of Romanticism, allegory, and the sublime, Knapp provides important new readings of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Kant, and William Collins. His provocative thesis sheds new light on the relationship between Romanticism and the eighteenth century
- Cataloging source
- DE-B1597
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Knapp, Steven
- Government publication
- other
- Language note
- In English
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Allegory
- Englische Literatur
- English poetry
- English poetry
- Literatur
- Personification in literature
- Personifikation
- Sublime, The, in literature
- Technique
- Target audience
- specialized
- Label
- Personification and the Sublime : Milton to Coleridge, Steven Knapp, (electronic resource)
- Contents
-
- Epilogue: Literal and Figurative Agency in Paradise Lost
- Abbreviations. Notes. Index
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- 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
- Control code
- ssj0001123345
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Reprint 2014
- Extent
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780674181670
- Other control number
- 10.4159/harvard.9780674181670
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssj0001123345
- System details
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
- Label
- Personification and the Sublime : Milton to Coleridge, Steven Knapp, (electronic resource)
- Contents
-
- Epilogue: Literal and Figurative Agency in Paradise Lost
- Abbreviations. Notes. Index
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- 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
- Control code
- ssj0001123345
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Reprint 2014
- Extent
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780674181670
- Other control number
- 10.4159/harvard.9780674181670
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssj0001123345
- System details
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
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