Feeding on Infinity: Readings in the Romantic Rhetoric of Internalization

173 Pages·2000·0.742 MB·English

by  Professor Joshua Wilner

Feeding on Infinity

Feeding on Infinity
Readings in the Romantic
Rhetoric of Internalization
Joshua Wilner
The Johns Hopkins University Press
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For Neil Hertz

A meditation rose in me that night
Upon the lonely mountain when the scene
Had passed away,and it appeared to me
The perfect image ofa mighty mind,
Ofone that feeds upon infinity ...
,
The Prelude()
Im Haschisch sind wir geniessende Prosawesen
höchster Potenz.
,
“Haschisch in Marseilles”()

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Note on Editions and Translations xiii
One
Interface 
Two
Romanticism and the Internalization ofScripture 
Three
Monster Feedback 
Retrospection,Traumatic Internalization,and Perceptual
Aberration in Prelude
Four
The Autobiographical Object 
Patterns ofIncorporation in Rousseau and Wordsworth
Five
Action,Internalization,and Utterance 
Structure and Gender in the Romantic Lyric
Six
The Stewed Muse ofProse 
Wordsworth,De Quincey,and Baudelaire
Seven
Drinking Rules! 
Byron and Baudelaire
Eight
“Le Bonheur Vomitif” 
Incorporation and Figuration in Baudelaire’s “Poème du Hachisch”