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Zusatztext There are a number of excellent essays here. Nicholas Roe's introduction gives a vivid sense of the close connections between science and politics during the Revolutionary decade Klappentext Bringing together an exciting variety of approaches, the fifteen authors here direct attention to Coleridge's relation to the "sciences of life"--a term which embraces a much broader field than modern "science." Accordingly there are essays on Coleridge and the vitalist debate, political and social ideas, race theories, dissent, literary relations, and language, as well as on his relation to contemporary optics, chemistry, geology, anatomy, and medicine. Taken all together, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life marks a vital and exciting development in Coleridge criticism. Zusammenfassung Over the last two decades Romantic studies have been invigorated by a variety of historical methods, approaches, interests; yet work on Samuel Taylor Coleridge has remained dominated by traditional views of Romantic transcendence. Bringing together an exciting variety of approaches, the fifteen authors here redirect attention to Coleridge's relation to the 'sciences of life' - a term which embraces a much broader field than modern 'science'. Accordingly there are chapters on Coleridge and the vitalist debate, political and social ideas, race theories, dissent, literary relations, and language, as well as on his relation to contemporary optics, chemistry, geology, anatomy, and medicine. Taken all together, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life marks a vital and exciting development in Coleridge criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Illustrations Abbreviations 1: Nicholas Roe: Introduction 2: Elinor Shaffer: Myths of Community in the Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998: The Commonwealth and the Constitution 3: Kenneth R. Johnston: The Political Sciences of Life: From American Pantisocracy to British Romanticism 4: Susan Manly: Jews, Jubilee, and Harringtonianism in Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth: Republican Conversions 5: Peter J. Kitson: Coleridge and 'the Oran utan hypothesis': Romantic Theories of Race 6: Tim Fulford: Theorizing Golgotha: Coleridge, Race Theory, and the Skull Beneath the Skin 7: James C. McKusick: Kubla Khan and the Theory of the Earth 8: Neil Vickers: Coleridge's Abstruse Researches 9: Jane Stabler: Space for Speculation: Coleridge, Barbauld, and the Poetics of Priestley 10: Beth Lau: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein 11: Angela Esterhammer: Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sun-rise' and the Voice Not Heard 12: Seamus Perry: Coleridge and the End of Autonomy 13: Raimondo Modiano: Historicist Readings of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 14: Kelvin Everest: Coleridge's Secret Ministry: Historical Reading and Editorial Theory 15: John Beer: How Shall We Write the Life of Coleridge? Contributors Index ...
