Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge Studies in RomanticismPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139147781Subject(s): English prose literature--19th century--History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic ProseDDC classification: 820.9145 LOC classification: PR778.R65 M55 2003Online resources: Click to ViewCover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Romanticism's knowing ways -- ROMANTIC INDIFFERENTISM -- SERPENT AND LOGOS: CREATION VS. FOUNDATION -- DISFIGURING ARGUMENT -- THE NEW FOUNDATIONALISM -- A KNOWING NOT-KNOWING -- THE RIVER-BED OF THOUGHT -- 1 From artistic to epistemic creation: the eighteenth century -- INSPIRATION AND THE SUBLIME FROM PUTTENHAM TO BURKE -- ASPECTS OF EMPIRICISM -- Crossing Hume's fork: the problem of value -- Inner sense: Hutcheson -- Common sense: Reid -- Association: Hartley -- CREATION AT THE MARGINS: THEORIES OF ORIGINAL GENIUS -- Imitation ancient and natural -- Innatism: Sharpe vs Young -- Invention -- The Scottish 'Genius' -- CONCLUSION -- 2 The charm of logic: Wordsworth's prose -- CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND THE CREATIVE ARTIST -- THE HABIT OF KNOWLEDGE: IMAGINATION, ASSOCIATION AND PLEASURE -- POETIC TRUTH: SPONTANEITY, APPEARANCE AND POWER -- CONCLUSION -- 3 The dry romance: Hazlitt's immanent idealism -- ACTION AND ABSTRACTION -- REASONING IMAGINATION AND PRODUCTIVE UNDERSTANDING -- PERCEPTION AND COMMON SENSE -- ASSOCIATION AND INSTINCTIVE PERCEPTION -- INNATISM AND THE POWER PRINCIPLE -- ART AND ORIGINALITY -- CONCLUSION: POWER AND PREJUDICE -- 4 Coleridge and the new foundationalism -- KANT AND THE FATE OF THE SYNTHETIC A PRIORI -- PHILOSOPHY'S RUINED TOWER: BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA -- ARGUING 'TRANSCENDENTALLY' IN BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA -- ECLIPSING ART: DIALECTICS IN THE FRIEND (1818) -- 5 The end of knowledge: Coleridge and theosophy -- RATIONALISM AND GLOBAL LOGIC -- 'REVERENCING THE INVISIBLE': VOLUNTARISM -- DIALECTICS AND THE 'INEFFABLE NAME' -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion: life without knowledge -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION: ROMANTICISM'S KNOWING WAYS -- 1 FROM ARTISTIC TO EPISTEMIC CREATION: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
2 THE CHARM OF LOGIC: WORDSWORTH'S PROSE -- 3 THE DRY ROMANCE: HAZLITT'S IMMANENT IDEALISM -- 4 COLERIDGE AND THE NEW FOUNDATIONALISM -- 5 THE END OF KNOWLEDGE: COLERIDGE AND THEOSOPHY -- CONCLUSION: LIFE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY HISTORICAL SOURCES -- SECONDARY AND CRITICAL SOURCES -- Index.
This 2003 study sheds light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the problems of knowledge.
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