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- Book Title
- George Berkeley And Romanticism: Ghostly Language
- Subject
- Ghosts, Languages
- ISBN
- 9780192846785
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192846787
ISBN-13
9780192846785
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18057247199
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
George Berkeley and Romanticism : Ghostly Language
Publication Year
2022
Subject
General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
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"In this book, Townsend argues for "a pervasive 'Berkeleian' undercurrent in the major English Romantic canon" (p. 17), specifically, the poetry of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley. In the opening chapter, Townsend offers what he calls "an original reading of Berkeley's work" (p. 9). He presents the centrality of spirit in Berkeley's ontology and his conception of nature as a divine visual language as key themes that connect Berkeley with the Romantic poets. Each of the remaining four chapters is devoted to one of the four poets." -- Choice"Townsend's study is essential reading for any scholar with an interest in the philosophy of the Romantic period, its reception of Enlightenment, and its thinking about poetic form." -- Tom Marshall, British Association of Romantic Studies, "In this book, Townsend argues for "a pervasive 'Berkeleian' undercurrent in the major English Romantic canon" (p. 17), specifically, the poetry of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley. In the opening chapter, Townsend offers what he calls "an original reading of Berkeley's work" (p. 9). He presents the centrality of spirit in Berkeley's ontology and his conception of nature as a divine visual language as key themes that connect Berkeley with the Romantic poets. Each of the remaining four chapters is devoted to one of the four poets." -- Choice, "In this book, Townsend argues for "a pervasive 'Berkeleian' undercurrent in the major English Romantic canon" (p. 17), specifically, the poetry of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley. In the opening chapter, Townsend offers what he calls "an original reading of Berkeley's work" (p. 9). He presents the centrality of spirit in Berkeley's ontology and his conception of nature as a divine visual language as key themes that connect Berkeley with the Romantic poets. Each of the remaining four chapters is devoted to one of the four poets." -- Choice "Townsend's study is essential reading for any scholar with an interest in the philosophy of the Romantic period, its reception of Enlightenment, and its thinking about poetic form." -- Tom Marshall, British Association of Romantic Studies, In this book, Townsend argues for "a pervasive 'Berkeleian' undercurrent in the major English Romantic canon" (p. 17), specifically, the poetry of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley. In the opening chapter, Townsend offers what he calls "an original reading of Berkeley's work" (p. 9). He presents the centrality of spirit in Berkeley's ontology and his conception of nature as a divine visual language as key themes that connect Berkeley with the Romantic poets.Each of the remaining four chapters is devoted to one of the four poets.
Dewey Decimal
821.709145
Table Of Content
Part OneIntroduction: Ghostly Language1. Berkeley and the Language of PhilosophyPart Two2. Spiritual Bodies and Mental Realities in Blake3. Inside Outness in Coleridge4. Wordsworth's Ghostly Language5. Shelley's Uncreative MindConclusion: Berkeley and Romanticism
Synopsis
George Berkeley's mainstream legacy amongst critics and philosophers, from Samuel Johnson to Bertrand Russell, has tended to concern his claim that the objects of perception are in fact nothing more than our ideas. Yet there's more to Berkeley than idealism alone, and the poets now grouped under the label 'Romanticism' took up Berkeley's ideas in especially strange and surprising ways. As this book shows, the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley focused less on Berkeley's arguments for idealism than they did on his larger, empirically-derived claim that nature constitutes a kind of linguistic system. It is through that 'ghostly language' that we might come to know ourselves, each other, and even God. This book is a reappraisal of the role that Berkeley's ideas played in Romanticism, and it pursues his spiritualized philosophy across a range of key Romantic-period poems. But it is also a re-reading of Berkeley himself, as a thinker who was deeply concerned with language and with written--even literary--style. In that sense, it offers an incisive case study into the reception of philosophical ideas into the workings of poetry, and of the role of poetics within the history of ideas more broadly., A study of philosopher George Berkeley's influence on British Romantic poetry, and especially the works of William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley that offers new readings of Berkeley's works and the development of his style as a writer.
LC Classification Number
PR590
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