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Strange power of speech : Wordsworth, Coleridge, and literary possession / Susan Eilenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eilenberg, Susan, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Authorship.
- Wordsworth, William.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Authorship.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Biographia literaria.
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Lyrical ballads.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
- Authorship--Collaboration--History--19th century.
- Authorship.
- Authorship--Collaboration.
- History.
- Copyright--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Copyright.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- This book explores the relationship between tropes of literary property and signification in the writings and literary politics of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Eilenberg argues that a complex of ideas about property, propriety, and possession sets the terms for the two writers' mutually revisionary efforts and informs the images of literary authority, textual identity, and poetic figuration evident in their major works. Eilenberg's readings of the collaboration and its principle texts bring to bear a combination of deconstructive, psychoanalytic, and both new and literary historical methods. The book provides a deeper understanding of the relationship between two of the major figures of English Romanticism as well as fresh insight into what is at stake in the analogy between the verbal and the material or the literary and the economic.
- Contents:
- Frequently Cited Texts xxi
- I The Lyrical Ballads: Imagination's Entitlement
- 1 The Propriety of the Lyrical Ballads 3
- 2 Voice and Ventriloquy in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 31
- 3 The Poetry of Property 60
- 4 "Michael," "Christabel," and the Poetry of Possession 87
- 5 The Haunted Language of the Lucy Poems 108
- II Afterwards: Imaginations in Division
- 6 The Heterogeneity of the Biographia Literaria 139
- 7 The Impropriety of the Imagination 168
- 8 Mortal Pages: Wordsworth and the Reform of Copyright 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195068564
- OCLC:
- 24068693
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