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''The Regions of Poetic Thought': A critical edition of the Selected Literary Criticism of Sara Coleridge'

《诗意思想的领域》：萨拉·柯勒律治文学批评选辑的批评版

基本信息

批准号：
AH/H00579X/1
负责人：
Peter Swaab
金额：
$ 3.36万
依托单位：
University College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2010 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH00579X%2F1
关键词：
Regions Poetic Thought critical edition

项目摘要

Between 1830 and 1850 women readers and writers made up the larger part of the literary world, and a woman literary critic, selecting and shaping the literary audience, was an important voice. ''The Regions of Poetic Thought': Selected Literary Criticism of Sara Coleridge' enables us to hear one such voice. She emerges as a critic of rare intelligence and theoretical reach as well as a lively commentator on her own times. Her critical contributions range widely. First, she was the polemical and scholarly re-presenter of her father Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in a series of seminal new editions. This pioneering work has been highly praised by later editors and commentators, but has been very difficult to access: the present book represents her most important contributions to 'Aids to Reflection' (1843), 'Biographia Literaria' (1847) and 'Essays on His Own Times' (1850). Secondly, she was an exceptional critic of Wordsworth - both admiring and sceptical - over almost 30 years. Alongside her father, Wordsworth was the great formative figure in her creative life, and the foremost influence (ahead even of STC) on her own poetry. Thirdly, her letters are the best guide to her own increasingly admired poetry and prose fiction. In them she defends her children's verses and 'Phantasmion' against readers who thought they lacked moral design: 'the author's chief end and aim consists in cultivating the imagination by exhibiting the general and abstract beauty of things', she contended -- but even so 'there are plenty of morals in the several parts'. And fourthly, she was a diversely brilliant critic and essayist on literatures ancient and modern, from Homer and Pindar to Tennyson and Charlotte Brontë. In particular, her often hostile remarks on contemporary women writers give us a contemporary's assessment of Victorian writers now being reread and reconsidered, and also a perspective on the mixture of audacity and self-deprecation in her own literary entry into the public sphere. Her energy and intellectual capacity were extraordinary, and warmly admired by the small but culturally crucial audience her editions reached. Even De Quincey, whom she sought to confute in the 1847 'Biographia', regarded 'her mode of argument as unassailable' . Her brother Hartley praised her 'Essay on Rationalism' (included in 'Aids to Reflection') as 'a wonder. I say not a wonder of a woman's work - where lives the man that could have written it? None in Great Britain since our Father died.' A century later Edmund Blunden 'doubted whether any finer philosopher (or reasoner) can be found among Englishwomen'. She deserves to be seen, without these gender caveats, alongside Mill and Newman as one of the most powerful philosophical thinkers of the early Victorian period. Much of the material here is printed from manuscript. Sara Coleridge was a natural writer. She had the Victorian epistolary habit, and well over 2,000 letters survive. She was also a prolific essayist, sometimes in her correspondence, sometimes in manuscript essays which although carefully finished seem not to have been shown widely. She had stamina, and the mass of her writing suggests her appetite to be heard and her consciousness that she had timely and cogent opinions. This volume selects from her finished essays and from private letters in which she expressed herself more sharply and freely than she allowed herself when imagining the public ear.Almost none of Sara Coleridge's literary criticism can currently be read except in Victorian editions, and much of it has never been published. Following on from her 'Collected Poems' (2007), which with the aid of the AHRC I brought out in 2007, ''The Regions of Poetic Thought: Selected Literary Criticism of Sara Coleridge' gives us the material for a reassessment of an important undervalued Victorian writer.

1830年至1850年间，女性读者和作家构成了文学界的大部分，女性文学评论家选择和塑造文学观众，是一个重要的声音。《诗意的领域：萨拉·柯勒律治文学批评选》让我们听到了这样一个声音。她是一位具有罕见智慧和理论影响力的批评家，也是一位对自己所处时代充满活力的评论家。她的重要贡献范围很广。首先，她是她父亲塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治（Samuel Taylor Coleridge）的辩论和学术重新提出者，在一系列开创性的新版本中。这一开创性的工作受到了后来的编辑和评论家的高度赞扬，但一直很难访问：本书代表了她最重要的贡献，“艾滋病反思”（1843年），“传记文学”（1847年）和“散文自己的时代”（1850年）。其次，近30年来，她是华兹华斯的杰出批评者--既钦佩又怀疑。与她的父亲一样，华兹华斯是她创作生涯中最伟大的塑造人物，也是对她自己的诗歌最重要的影响（甚至超过STC）。第三，她的信件是她自己越来越受人喜爱的诗歌和散文小说的最佳指南。在这些作品中，她为孩子们的诗歌和《诗篇》辩护，反对那些认为它们缺乏道德设计的读者：“作者的主要目的和目标在于通过展示事物的一般和抽象之美来培养想象力，”她争辩说，但即使如此，“在几个部分中也有很多道德”。此外，她还是一位才华横溢的评论家和散文家，研究古代和现代文学，从荷马和品达到丁尼生和夏洛特勃朗特。尤其是她对当代女性作家的敌意评论，给我们提供了一个当代人对正在被重新阅读和重新思考的维多利亚作家的评价，也让我们看到了她在文学进入公共领域时大胆和自嘲的混合。她的精力和智力都是非凡的，受到她的版本所触及的少数但在文化上至关重要的观众的热烈钦佩。甚至她在1847年的《传记》中试图反驳的德·昆西也认为“她的论证方式是无懈可击的”。她的哥哥哈特利称赞她的《论物质主义》（收录在《反思的辅助》中）是一个奇迹。我不是说一个女人的作品是一个奇迹--能写出这部作品的人住在哪里？自从我们的父亲去世后，英国就没有人了。“世纪后，埃德蒙·布伦登”怀疑在英国妇女中是否能找到更好的哲学家（或推理家）“。她值得被视为，没有这些性别的警告，与密尔和纽曼一起，作为维多利亚时代早期最强大的哲学思想家之一。这里的大部分材料都是从手稿中打印出来的。莎拉·柯勒律治是个天生的作家。她有维多利亚时代的书信习惯，有2,000多封信流传下来。她也是一个多产的散文家，有时在她的信件，有时在手稿散文，虽然仔细完成似乎没有被广泛显示。她有毅力，她大量的写作表明她渴望被倾听，她意识到她有及时和令人信服的意见。本书精选了她完成的散文和私人信件，她在这些信件中表达了自己的观点，比想象中的公开场合更加尖锐和自由。萨拉·柯勒律治的文学评论目前除了维多利亚时代的版本外，几乎没有一本可以读到，其中大部分从未出版过。继她的“诗集”（2007年）之后，在AHRC的帮助下，我于2007年出版了“诗歌思想的区域：萨拉·柯勒律治文学批评选”，为我们重新评估一位重要的被低估的维多利亚作家提供了材料。