The Revivifying Word
Literature, Philosophy, and the Theory of Life in Europe's Romantic Age
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
219 pages
978-1-57113-804-0 (ISBN)
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Reading as key to the mysterious relation between lifeless material bodies and living, animate beings in Romantic fiction and thought.
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Clayton Koelb
The Revivifying Word
Literature, Philosophy, and the Theory of Life in Europe's Romantic Age
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10/2008
Camden House Inc
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
- Part I: Letter and Spirit
- Introduction: "The Dead Man's Life": Romantic Reading and Revivification
- 1: "The Sound Which Echoes in Our Soul": The Romantic Aesthetics of Matter and Spirit
- 2: "Spirit Thinks Only Through the Body": Materialist Spiritualism in Romantic Europe
- Part II: The Dead and Living Past
- 3: "The Heavenly Revelation of Her Spirit": Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther
- 4: "O Read for Pity's Sake!": Keats's Endymion
- 5: "Graecum Est, Non Legitur": Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris
- 6: "Spiritual Communication": Gautier's Spirite
- Part III: The Incarnate Word
- 7: "Eat This Scroll": Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas"
- 8: "I Sickened as I Read": Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- 9: "Those Who, Being Dead, Are Yet Alive": Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer
- 10: "This Hideous Drama o fRevivification": Poe and the Rhetoric of Terror
- CONCLUSION
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX
- Backcover
