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vls/2603nrwcece.visuallibrary.netvdAwful parenthesissuspension and the sublime in Romantic and Victorian poetryMcCarthy, Anne C.auttextbookTorontoBuffaloLondonUniversity of Toronto Press20182018monographicengx, 218 Seiten ; 24 cmIntroduction: approaching suspension -- Coleridge, suspension, and the sublime -- Semblances of truth in "Christabel" and Aids to reflection -- Ecstatic suspension in Shelley's "Universe of things" -- Tennyson and the rhetoric of suspended animation -- Christina Rossetti's poetic faith -- Conclusion: over, again"Whether the rapt trances of Romanticism or the corpse-like figures that confounded Victorian science and religion, nineteenth-century depictions of bodies in suspended animation are read as manifestations of broader concerns about the unknowable in Anne C. McCarthy's Awful Parenthesis. Examining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, McCarthy shares important insights into the nineteenth-century fascination with the sublime. Attentive to differences between "Romantic" and "Victorian" articulations of suspension, Awful Parenthesis offers a critical alternative to assumptions about periodization. While investigating various conceptualizations of suspension, including the suspension of disbelief, suspended animation, trance, paralysis, pause, and dilatation, McCarthy provides historically-aware close readings of nineteenth-century poems in conversation with prose genres that include devotional works, philosophy, travel writing, and periodical fiction. Awful Parenthesis reveals the cultural obsession with the aesthetics of suspension as a response to an expanding, incoherent world in crisis, one where the audience is both active participant and passive onlooker."--Anne C. McCarthyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and indexBVBTBV044931754English poetry / 19th century / History and criticismSublime, The, in literature|PR595.S77BVBBV0449317541-4875-0291-5978-1-4875-0291-1HT01993649546611DVAP15832019011620190220DVAP1583rda https://ce.visuallibrary.net//domainresource/static/graphics/connectors/viewerLogo.gif http://193.30.112.129:83/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=ICS%3DDVAP1583 https://ce.visuallibrary.net/id/957561 https://ce.visuallibrary.net/i3f/v20/957561/manifest https://ce.visuallibrary.net/proto_ftsearch/957561