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001 2014413495
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008 140523s2014 gw b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9783868215274 (paperback)
020 $a3868215271 (paperback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn879568975
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050 00 $aPR447$b.H26 2014
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100 1 $aHaekel, Ralf,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe soul in British romanticism :$bnegotiating human nature in philosophy, science and poetry /$cRalf Haekel.
246 30 $aNegotiating human nature in philosophy, science and poetry
264 1 $aTrier :$bWVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier,$c[2014]
300 $aix, 245 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aStudien zur englischen Romantik ;$vNeue Folge, Band 14
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
520 $aThe Soul in British Romanticism provides a history of the modern concept of the human and the nascence of the human sciences during the long eighteenth century as well as a theory of Romantic poetry. The book investigates the forms and functions of the human soul from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century: during the Enlightenment, the traditional notion of an immortal and immaterial soul was replaced by immanent concepts such as vitalism, the nervous system and the brain. In the course of this development, the key faculties associated with the soul - transcendence, immortality and imagination - were increasingly negotiated in poetry. Thus, the transformation of the soul, leading to a fundamentally new and different understanding of what it is to be human, also created a new conception of the medium of literature. Romantic poetry tries to recapture the lost qualities of the human soul in and through the creative imagination which becomes the essence of poetry and a warranty of art's transcendence and immortality. On the other hand, this triggers a reflection on the immanent and material basis of poetry because, paradoxically, the constant reference to transcendence in immanence ultimately leads to a profound reflection on language, texture and on the materiality of the medium of poetry. Through this medial self-reflexivity, Romantic poetry becomes the first form of modern literature.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aSoul in literature.
830 0 $aStudien zur englischen Romantik ;$vn.F., Bd. 14.