A modern Coleridge : cultivation, addiction, habits /
"A Modern Coleridge presents Coleridge as an eminently modern thinker, whose works stage the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction, and habit. These, the book shows, all revolve around a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's idea of the 'human...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: CULTIVATION. 1. Cultivating Reason and the Will ; 2. The Shaping Spirit of Education ; 3. Staging Education: 'The Appeal to Law', Wordsworth's 'Peter Bell', and 'The Ancient Mariner' ; 4. Sympathy: Adam Smith and Coleridgean Education
- PART II: ADDICTION. 5. Re-reading Culture and Addiction: Coleridge's Writings on Civilisation and Walter Benjamin's Analysis of Modernity and the Addict ; 6. Craving for Novelties : Craving for Novels: The Politics of Intoxicated Reading ; 7. He 'did not write, he acted poems': Kubla Khan, Luther and Rousseau
- PART III: HABITS. 8. 'habits of active industry' (AR, 49) ; 9. The Habit of 'abstruse research': 'Dejection: and Ode'Conclusion: Cultivation through Love: 'Effusion XXXV' and 'The Eolian Harp'
- Bibliography
- Index.
