ROMANTICISM AND THE ANDROGYNOUS SUBLIME. (SIGNED)

STEVENSON, Warren.

ISBN 10: 0838636683 / ISBN 13: 9780838636688

Published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press,, Madison,, 1998

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 153. Original publisher's black cloth boards, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper to Cyril Fry of the Fry Gallery, London. ISBN: 0838636683 Very good indeed in very good dust jacket, with slight sunning at spine.

Seller Inventory # C79637

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ROMANTICISM AND THE ANDROGYNOUS SUBLIME. (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press,, Madison,
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838636683
• ISBN 13: 9780838636688
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
  • Androgyny

About this title

Synopsis

This book studies and articulates the emergence from the poetical subtext of six major English romantics of "the androgynous sublime," a mode that conflates the motif of psychic androgyny (traceable as far back as the Book of Genesis and Plato's Symposium) with the mode of sublimity, first discussed by Longinus and much debated from the eighteenth century onward.
Frequently echoed by the romantic poets, Milton's description of the Holy Spirit's role in the creation of the world is androgynous.
Since humane creativity mirrors divine creativity, it follows that the artist qua artist muct also be androgynous - that is, endowed with what Lyrical Ballads, calls "a more comprehensive soul" than is "supposed to be common among mankind."
Characterized by a flexuous, limber style and an association with androgynous subject matter, the androgynous sublime subverts conventional notions of sublimity while offering a more comprehensive model with which to supplement, of non supplant, them.
The methodology of this study is to present a "counter-deconstructive" reading of the text and, where applicable, designs of Blake, as well as the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, seen from this somewhat novel but not ignoble perspective.