The rhetoric of Romantic prophecy / Ian Balfour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balfour, Ian.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Prophecy in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 346 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The romantic era in England and Germany saw a sudden renewal of prophetic modes of writing. Biblical prophecy and classical oracle once again became viable models for poetry and even for journalistic prose. After surveying 18th-century biblical hermeneutics, as well as numerous instances of prophetic eruption in Romantic poetry, the book culminates in close readings of works by Blake, Hö lderlin, and Coleridge.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Call of Prophecy and the Future (After Benjamin) 1

2 The Scope and Texture of Romantic Prophecy: Wordsworth and Novalis Among Others 19

Part I Prophetic Figures in Eighteenth-Century Interpretation

3 Robert Lowth and the Temporality of Prophetic Rhetoric 55

4 The Speaking Hieroglyph: Hurd, Warburton, and the Matter of Style 82

5 Herder and Eichhorn: Word, Deed, and Fiction in Prophetic Discourse 106

Part II Readings in Prophetic Writing

6 The Mediated Vision: Blake, Milton, and the Lines of Prophetic Tradition 127

7 Holderlin's Moment of Truth: "Germanien" and the Oracle to the Nation (With an Excursus on Revelation, Representation, and Religion in the Age of German Idealism) 173

8 Allegories of the Symbol: Rhetoric, Politics, and Prophecy in Coleridge's The Statesman's Manual 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-338) and index.

ISBN:

0804742316

0804745064

OCLC:

49859917