The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance now, 250 years after his birth.

Tim Fulford (Edited by)

9781108832229, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 November 2022

276 pages
23.7 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.57 kg

This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in relation to slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder and ecological crisis. Through detailed engagement with Coleridge's pioneering poetry, the reader is invited to explore fundamental questions on themes ranging from nature and trauma to gender and sexuality. Essays by leading Coleridge scholars analyse and render accessible his extraordinarily innovative thinking about dreams, psychoanalysis, genius and symbolism. Coleridge is often a direct and gripping writer, yet he is also elusive and diverse. This Companion's great achievement is to offer a one-volume entry point into his incomparably rich and varied world.

1. Coleridge at 250: a Poet for the Twenty-first Century Tim Fulford
2. Political Coleridge Jacob Lloyd
3. Coleridge and Collaboration Felicity James
4. Nature Lyrics Gregory Leadbetter
5. Coleridge's Ecopoetics Joanna E. Taylor
6. Gothic Coleridge, Ballad Coleridge Margaret Russett
7. Coleridge's Metres Ewan James Jones
8. Coleridge and the Theatre Michael Gamer and Jeffrey N. Cox
9. Coleridge the Walker Alan Vardy
10. Notebook Coleridge Thomas Owens
11. Coleridge and Science Kurtis Hessel
12. Religious Coleridge Jeffrey W. Barbeau
13. Coleridge the Lecturer and Critic Charles W. Mahoney
14. Coleridge's Philosophies Nicholas Halmi
15. Coleridge's Later Poetry Karen Swann
16. Coleridge and History Tom Duggett.

Subject Areas: Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ], Philosophy [HP], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Poetry [DC]