McCarthy, Anne C.,
Awful parenthesis : suspension and the sublime in romantic and Victorian poetry /
Anne C. McCarthy.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Approaching Suspension; 1 Coleridge, Suspension, and the Sublime; 2 Semblances of Truth in "Christabel" and Aids to Reflection; 3 Ecstatic Suspension in Shelley's "Universe of Things"; 4 Tennyson and the Rhetoric of Suspended Animation; 5 Christina Rossetti's Poetic Faith; Conclusion: Over, Again; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Examining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of nineteenth-century poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, Anne C. McCarthy shares important insights into the cultural fascination with the sublime.