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.

 





9781487516284


English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
Sublime, The, in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR595 / .A948 2018