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Author Eilenberg, Susan, 1956-

Title Strange power of speech : Wordsworth, Coleridge, and literary possession / Susan Eilenberg.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 278 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-268) and index.
Contents The propriety of the Lyrical ballads -- Voice and ventriloquy in The rime of the ancient mariner -- The poetry of property -- "Michael," "Christabel," and the poetry of possession -- The haunted language of the Lucy poems -- The heterogeneity of the Biographia literaria -- The impropriety of the imagination -- Mortal pages : Wordsworth and the reform of copyright.
Summary Eilenberg's subject is the relationship between tropes of literary property and signification in the writings and literary politics of Wordsworth and Coleridge. She argues that a complex of ideas about property, propriety, and possession informs the images of literary authority, textual identity, and poetic figuration found in the two writers' major work. During the period of their closest collaboration as well as at points later in their careers, Wordsworth and Coleridge took as their primary material the images of property and propriety upon which definitions of meaning and figuration have traditionally depended, grounding these images in writings about landed and spiritual property, material and intellectual theft, dispossession by banks and possession by demons. The writings and the politics generated by the literalization of such images can be read as allegorical of the structures and processes of signification. Each such gesture addresses in some way the fundamental question - who owns language, or who controls meaning?; Eilenberg's approach brings to bear a combination of deconstructive, psychoanalytic, and both new and literary historical methods to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between two of the major figures of English Romanticism as well as fresh insight into what is at stake in the analogy between the verbal and the material or the literary and the economic.
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Subject Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Authorship.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Authorship.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Authorship.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Biographia literaria.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Lyrical ballads.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Biographia literaria (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor)
Lyrical ballads (Wordsworth, William)
Authorship -- Collaboration -- History -- 19th century.
Authorship -- Collaboration.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Copyright -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Copyright.
Great Britain.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Indexed Term English poetry
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Eilenberg, Susan, 1956- Strange power of speech. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (DLC) 91025497
ISBN 0195068564 (acid-free paper)
9780195068566 (acid-free paper)
1423737407 (electronic book)
9781423737407 (electronic book)
1280440856
9781280440854