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The Resource Personification and the Sublime : Milton to Coleridge, Steven Knapp, (electronic resource)

Personification and the Sublime : Milton to Coleridge, Steven Knapp, (electronic resource)

Label
Personification and the Sublime : Milton to Coleridge
Title
Personification and the Sublime
Title remainder
Milton to Coleridge
Statement of responsibility
Steven Knapp
Creator
Subject
Language
  • 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
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Cataloging source
DE-B1597
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Knapp, Steven
Government publication
other
Language note
In English
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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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)
Instantiates
Publication
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)
Publication
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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