Romantic Fiat [electronic resource] : Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry.
In the Romantic period's economics of 'fiat' money the legacy of romanticism involves absolutist gestures of verbal fiat. Focused on William Wordsworth, but in constant range of his poet-successors and modern critics, Romantic Fiat presents an argument for a double romantic signature...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Fiat in Lyric; Part I: Giving Commands and Letting Go; 1 Romanticism and 'Exaggeration of Thought'; 2 The Command to Nature; 3 Wordsworth's Useless Fiat in 'The Old Cumberland Beggar'; Part II: Ontology and the Lyric; 4 Between Cant and Anguish: Hume in Coleridge's Imagination; 5 Wordsworth and the Beautiful Day; Part III: Blessing Cursing; 6 Contracting Obi: Shelley's Cosmopolitanism and the Curse of Poetry; 7 Paper Money Poets; Coda: Nature Poets and Fiat Money; Notes; Index.