Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834
'What is Life?'
Published on 18. December 2009
Book
Hardback
XXX, 314 pages
978-0-230-54522-9 (ISBN)
Description
Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human Body/Soul relations, both in life and after death.
Reviews / Votes
"Webster's treatment of the theories she reconstructs is admirably thorough, opening a new path through the complex
territory of the late notebooks." - BARS Bulletin
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Series
Edition
2013 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
XXX, 314 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-54522-9 (9780230545229)
DOI
10.1057/9780230245815
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01/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
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SUZANNE E. WEBSTER is an Assistant Professor of English at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, USA, where she teaches British Romanticism and other courses in British literature. Supported by a British Academy Postgraduate Studentship, she gained her MPhil and DPhil degrees in English Literature from the University of Oxford, UK. In 1999, a Thouron Scholarship enabled her to study and teach English at the University of Pennsylvania; and she has lived and worked in the USA ever since.
Content
List of Diagrams Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on the Text Introduction Coleridge in Limbo: Competing Views on Body and Soul Indecisive Reflections: Body, Soul, and Pauline Theology The Crux of the Dilemma: The Incarnation, Humanity, and 'Obnoxious Body' of Christ Resurrection: The Role of the 'Natural Body' Appendix I: Understanding Appendix II: The Triple Ichheit; Threefold 'I'-ness in the Human Being on Earth Endnotes Bibliography Index