The Revivifying word : literature, philosophy, and the theory of life in europe's romantic age / by Koelb, Clayton, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "The dead man's life": romantic reading and revivification -- "The sound which echoes in our soul": the romantic aesthetics of matter and spirit -- "Spirit thanks only through the body": materialist spiritualism in romantic Europe -- "The heavenly revelation of her spirit": Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther -- "O read for pity's sake!": Keat's Endymion -- "Graecum est, non legitur": Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris -- "Spiritual communication": Gautier's Spirite -- "Eat this scroll": Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" -- "I sickened as I read": Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- "Those who, being dead, are yet alive": Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer -- "This hideous drama of revivification": Poe and the rhetoric of terror.…”
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The revivifying word : literature, philosophy, and the theory of life in Europe's romantic age / by Koelb, Clayton, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "The dead man's life": romantic reading and revivification -- "The sound which echoes in our soul": the romantic aesthetics of matter and spirit -- "Spirit thanks only through the body": materialist spiritualism in romantic Europe -- "The heavenly revelation of her spirit": Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther -- "O read for pity's sake!": Keat's Endymion -- "Graecum est, non legitur": Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris -- "Spiritual communication": Gautier's Spirite -- "Eat this scroll": Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" -- "I sickened as I read": Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- "Those who, being dead, are yet alive": Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer -- "This hideous drama of revivification": Poe and the rhetoric of terror.…”
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