Product Description: Ross Woodman's Sanity, Madness, Transformation was an adventurous exploration of the links between madness in Romantic writing and modern literary and psychoanalytic theory. Revelation and Knowledge picks up where his previous work left off by tracing the profound connections and gaps between religious and poetic faith in the works of the British Romantic poets...read more

Product Description: Meditative spirituality is the common feature that Rudy (English, Indiana U.-Kokomo) finds in Zen Buddhism and British Romantic poetry. Underlying the confluence, he says, is the realization of a displaced, formless, originary ground, which is inclusive of yet prior to and beyond the subject-objec...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot inseeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-nineteenth century England. While much recent criticism has tended to overlook or dismiss their religious pronouncements, this book foregrounds the religious aspect of their writing and relocates their most important work in the context of contemporary debate...read more

Product Description: The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches--intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics--Deeanne Westbrook first analyzes Wordsworth’s theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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