Thesis
“Enough! or too much”: forms of textual excess in Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey
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My thesis explores the potential and the peril of Romantic literature's increasingly complex forms through a close comparative study of the works of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey. These writers exemplify the Romantic predicament of how to make vision manifest – how to communicate one's imaginative and intellectual expansiveness without diminishing it. They sought different strategies for increasing the capacity of literary form, ostensi...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2016
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:12538
- Deposit date:
- 2016-07-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Kellett, L
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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