A. Timar

A Modern Coleridge: Cultivation, Addiction, Habits A. Timar

Marc Notes: This publication shows the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction, and habit in Coleridge's poetry and prose, and argues that these all revolve around the problematic nexus of a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's eminently modern idea of the 'human'. Biographical Note: Andrea Timar is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. Her articles on Coleridge appeared in The Wordsworth Circle, The Coleridge Bulletin, Notes and Queries, and Critical Engagements: a Journal of Criticism and Theory. Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsIntroductionPART I: CULTIVATION1. Cultivating Reason and the Will2. The Shaping Spirit of Education3. Staging Education: 'The Appeal to Law'. Wordsworth's 'Peter Bell'. And 'The Ancient Mariner'4. Sympathy: Adam Smith and Coleridgean EducationPART II: ADDICTION5. Re-reading Culture and Addiction: Coleridge's Writings on Civilisation and Walter Benjamin's Analysis of Modernity and the Addict6. Craving for Novelties - Craving for Novels: The Politics of Intoxicated Reading7. He 'did not write, he acted poems': Kubla Khan, Luther and RousseauPART III: HABITS8. 'habits of active industry' (AI, 49)9. The Habit of 'abstruse research': 'Dejection: and Ode'Conclusion: Cultivation through Love: 'Effusion XXXV' and 'The Eolian Harp'BibliographyIndexPublisher Marketing: A Modern Coleridge shows the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction and habit in Coleridge's poetry and prose, and argues that these all revolve around the problematic nexus of a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's eminently modern idea of the 'human'.