Coleridge’s Sublime Later Prose and Recent Theory
Kristeva, Adorno, Rancière
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“Murray Evans's new book provides probing readings of the role of the sublime in Coleridge's later work, including Aids to Reflection and On the Constitution of the Church and State. Evans shows how sublime instability, boundary-crossing, and excess can be found even in works that appear to defend religious and literary orthodoxies. Still further, he illuminates, and expands the relevance of, these readings by adventurous forays into major theoretical writing from the past few decades. This is a bold and stimulating contribution to scholarship on Romanticism.” —Mark Canuel, Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s later major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime. Building on the author’s previous monograph Sublime Coleridge: The Opus Maximum, this study focuses on sublime theory and discourse in Coleridge’s other major prose texts of the 1820s: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (wr. 1824), Aids to Reflection (1825), and On the Constitution of the Church and State (1829). This book thus ponders the constellations of aesthetics, literature, religion, and politics in the sublime theory and practice of this central Romantic author and three of his important successors: Julia Kristeva, Theodor Adorno, and Jacques Rancière.
Murray J. Evans is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Winnipeg and Retired Fellow at St John’s College, University of Manitoba, Canada. He has taught medieval literature and medievalism, Coleridge, children’s literature, “Inklings” C.S. Lewis et al., literary history, and literary theory. He is the author of Rereading Middle English Romance (1995) and Sublime Coleridge: The Opus Maximum (Palgrave, 2012) and has also published essays on Malory and the Malory manuscript, Chaucer, Piers Plowman, Coleridge, and C.S. Lewis.
This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s later major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime. Building on the author’s previous monograph Sublime Coleridge: The Opus Maximum, this study focuses on sublime theory and discourse in Coleridge’s other major prose texts of the 1820s: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (wr. 1824), Aids to Reflection (1825), and On the Constitution of the Church and State (1829). This book thus ponders the constellations of aesthetics, literature, religion, and politics in the sublime theory and practice of this central Romantic author and three of his important successors: Julia Kristeva, Theodor Adorno, and Jacques Rancière.
Advances scholarship on Coleridge’s later major prose, which has received little critical attention Places Coleridge’s sublime in dialogue with sublime theory and discourse of the last fifty years Situates Coleridge’s perennial appeal in relation to the concerns and discourses of our more recent era
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“Coleridge’s Later Prose and Recent Theory: Kristeva, Adorno, Rancière, by Murray Evans, in some ways serves as a case study of the issues that arise in so many of the articles in Duffy’s collection. … It also attempts to make the subject more present and relevant by addressing contemporary philosophers and urgent issues … . result is a collection of very interesting thought experiments that is possibly less historically rigorous than it might be but is nonetheless intriguing and worthwhile.” (Stephen Hancock, European Romantic Review, February 26, 2025)
“Coleridgeans … with little interest in modern theory, should read this book, as it provides fresh insights into the later Coleridge not ordinarily available from single-author analyses. Evans’ comparative breadth can only deepen our appreciation of the persistence of the Coleridgean milieu.” (Peter Larkin, The Coleridge Bulletin, Vol. 63, 2024)
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“In this fascinating study, Murray Evans offers a sophisticated, interdisciplinary analysis of the sublime that draws on political theory, philosophy, and theology. Here, the great ‘Sage of Highgate’ comes into fresh perspective in a rich and multifaceted analysis of human experience and meaning-making in conversation with the works of Julia Kristeva, Theodor Adorno, and Jacques Rancière. This is the fruit of a lifetime of reflection on aesthetics”—Jeffrey W. Barbeau, Professor of Theology, Wheaton College
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