Centring the self : subjectivity, society, and reading from Thomas Gray to Thomas Hardy
These essays focus primarily on the theme of selfhood and subjective experience in the poetry of the British Romantic period, and in the later poetry and novels that were its legacy. Writers covered include Gray, Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hardy and George Eliot.
Print Book, English, ©1995
Scolar Press ; Ashgate, Aldershot, England, Brookfield, Vt., USA, ©1995
History
xviii, 273 pages ; 25 cm
9781859281512, 1859281516
31172777
1. The Selving of Thomas Gray
2. William Cowper and the Condition of England
3. 'Which way I fly': Cowper's 'The Castaway' and Other Poems
4. Wordsworth, Bunyan, and the Puritan Mind
5. Indeterminacy of Meaning in 'The Ancient Mariner'
6. Keats, Politics, and the Idea of Revolution
7. The Shelleyan Psychodrama I: The 'dream of youth': Alastor
8. The Shelleyan Psychodrama II: Taking Stock, Taking Wing: 'Julian and Maddalo', Adonais
9. Authoring the Self: Childe Harold III and IV
10. Dorothea's Awakening: a Note on Middlemarch
11. Thomas Hardy and the Forms of Making: Interpreting Jude the Obscure