Futures of Enlightenment Poetry

Explores the creative work of writers and theologians who used their poetic writings as a means to explore and envisage scenarios of embodiment and existence that extended to life after bodily death.

List of contents

• Introduction: Futurity Two Ways, from Milton to Now


• Movement One: Waiting in Matter


• 1: An Education for the Present


• Interlude: Animating Nature


• Movement Two: Rising to Spirit


• 2: Gender after Sex


• 3: Commerce after Money


• 4: Creation after Reproduction


• Interlude: Buried Alive


• Movement Three: Returning to Matter


• 5: The Place for Gloom


• 6: Romantic Re-embodiment and Beyond


• Bibliography

About the author

Dustin D. Stewart is an Assistant Professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin and held academic posts in Atlanta and Colorado Springs before moving to New York City. Futures of Enlightenment Poetry is his first book.

Summary

Explores the creative work of writers and theologians who used their poetic writings as a means to explore and envisage scenarios of embodiment and existence that extended to life after bodily death.

Additional text

Futures of Enlightenment Poetry proposes rich new ways of exploring the period. Stewart's work is a testament to the relevance of theology and poetry for eighteenth-century studies, and of eighteenth-century studies for humanistic understanding writ large.

Product details

• Authors: Dustin D. Stewart, Dustin D. (Assistant Professor of English Stewart, Dustin D. (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Stewart
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780198857792
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885779-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets