Coleridge's Visionary Languages: Essays in honour of J.B. Beer

by Tim Fulford (Editor)

Coleridge's Visionary Languagesis a collection of essays by some of the leading scholars of Romanticism. They take as their theme Coleridge's ability to transform discourses from within and to envisage new relations between them. Working with insights provided by recent developments in literary theory, in feminism, and in historical analysis, these essays present Coleridge as a poet and thinker deeply concerned to transform the established languages of power to make possible a more deeply and justly based understanding of men, women, and society. The book ranges across the full length and breadth of Coleridge's intellectual life and will be of interest to all those wishing to question Romanticism's engagement with its own and our times.Contributors: PETER J. KITSON, JAN PLUG, JOHN DREW, J.C.C. MAYS, ANYA TAYLOR, DENISE DEGROIS, E.S. SHAFFER, STEPHEN PRICKET, JONATHAN BATE, DAVID S. MAILL, THOMAS McFARLAND, MARY ANNE PERKINS. TIM FULFORDis a Fellow and Lecturer in English at Jesus College, Cambridge. MORTON D. PALEYis a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

Professor Tim Fulford is one of the leading proponents of the new, historicised critique of literature as applied to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (especially Romantic literature). He has written a series of internationally acclaimed authoritative works on poetry in relation to the politics of landscape (rural society), to issues of gender (in particular, the politicisation of masculinity) and to exploration, colonialism and science.