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Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the sciences of life

Bringing together an exciting variety of approaches, these fifteen chapters illuminate Coleridge's relation to the 'sciences of life' - a term much broader than modern 'science'. Along with optics, chemistry, geology, anatomy, and medicine the studies embrace politics, racial theories, literary relations, and much more. This is a vital and exciting development in Coleridge criticism.
Print Book, English, 2001
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001
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XVI, 364 p. ill. 23 cm
9780198187233, 0198187238
1014978787
Preface ; Illustrations ; Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Myths of Community in the Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998: The Commonwealth and the Constitution ; 3. The Political Sciences of Life: From American Pantisocracy to British Romanticism ; 4. Jews, Jubilee, and Harringtonianism in Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth: Republican Conversions ; 5. Coleridge and 'the Oran utan hypothesis': Romantic Theories of Race ; 6. Theorizing Golgotha: Coleridge, Race Theory, and the Skull Beneath the Skin ; 7. Kubla Khan and the Theory of the Earth ; 8. Coleridge's Abstruse Researches ; 9. Space for Speculation: Coleridge, Barbauld, and the Poetics of Priestley ; 10. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein ; 11. Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sun-rise' and the Voice Not Heard ; 12. Coleridge and the End of Autonomy ; 13. Historicist Readings of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; 14. Coleridge's Secret Ministry: Historical Reading and Editorial Theory ; 15. How Shall We Write the Life of Coleridge? ; Contributors ; Index