The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge
This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in relation to slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder and ecological crisis. Through detailed engagement with Coleridge's pioneering poetry, the reader is invited to explore fundamental questions on themes ranging from nature and trauma to gender and sexuality. Essays by leading Coleridge scholars analyse and render accessible his extraordinarily innovative thinking about dreams, psychoanalysis, genius and symbolism. Coleridge is often a direct and gripping writer, yet he is also elusive and diverse. This Companion's great achievement is to offer a one-volume entry point into his incomparably rich and varied world.
- Demonstrates to students and general readers how and why Coleridge's writing is again powerfully relevant, 250 years after his birth
- Reframes Coleridge's work in relation to complex political and social themes from history and the present day, including slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder and ecological crisis
- Discusses both poetry and prose, gathering analysis of the extraordinarily diverse themes and genres Coleridge engaged with in his lifetime into a single authoritative volume
Reviews & endorsements
‘Fulford’s collection is carefully chosen, illuminating, and fresh. The writing throughout is vivid with lively quotations from Coleridge, commentary direct and not arcane, with no tedious jargon or distracting theory. The entries appreciate their subject and know him in detail. I am hoping the book launches new Coleridgeans in colleges and universities throughout the world, and that those lucky students of this good and wise poet can find jobs from which to spread their closely reasoned enthusiasm.’ Anya Taylor, The Coleridge Bulletin
Product details
November 2022Paperback
9781108940795
276 pages
230 × 150 × 15 mm
0.43kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Coleridge at 250: a Poet for the Twenty-first Century Tim Fulford
- 2. Political Coleridge Jacob Lloyd
- 3. Coleridge and Collaboration Felicity James
- 4. Nature Lyrics Gregory Leadbetter
- 5. Coleridge's Ecopoetics Joanna E. Taylor
- 6. Gothic Coleridge, Ballad Coleridge Margaret Russett
- 7. Coleridge's Metres Ewan James Jones
- 8. Coleridge and the Theatre Michael Gamer and Jeffrey N. Cox
- 9. Coleridge the Walker Alan Vardy
- 10. Notebook Coleridge Thomas Owens
- 11. Coleridge and Science Kurtis Hessel
- 12. Religious Coleridge Jeffrey W. Barbeau
- 13. Coleridge the Lecturer and Critic Charles W. Mahoney
- 14. Coleridge's Philosophies Nicholas Halmi
- 15. Coleridge's Later Poetry Karen Swann
- 16. Coleridge and History Tom Duggett.