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

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 278 pages) 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 Analysis English poetry Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-268) and index Notes Print version record Subject Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Authorship Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Authorship Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Biographia literaria Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Lyrical ballads. SUBJECT Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 fast Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 fast Biographia literaria (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor) fast Lyrical ballads (Wordsworth, William) fast Subject Authorship -- Collaboration -- History -- 19th century Copyright -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Authorship Authorship -- Collaboration Copyright Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0195068564 9780195068566 1423737407 9781423737407 1280440856 9781280440854 9781601298119 1601298110

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