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From Superstition to Enlightenment: Wordsworth’s Antiquarian and Virtuoso Selves in the Ecclesiastical Sketches
https://doi.org/10.34577/00004166
https://doi.org/10.34577/0000416640c7e8b9-4e40-49b4-8d72-e957ee7be90d
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From Superstition to Enlightenment: Wordsworth’s Antiquarian and Virtuoso Selves in the Ecclesiastical Sketches (886.8 kB)
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| Item type | 紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper(1) | |||||
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| 公開日 | 2016-10-20 | |||||
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| タイトル | From Superstition to Enlightenment: Wordsworth’s Antiquarian and Virtuoso Selves in the Ecclesiastical Sketches | |||||
| 言語 | en | |||||
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| 資源タイプ識別子 | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | |||||
| 資源タイプ | departmental bulletin paper | |||||
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| ID登録 | 10.34577/00004166 | |||||
| ID登録タイプ | JaLC | |||||
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| アクセス権URI | open access | |||||
| 著者 |
Simons, Christopher E. J.
× Simons, Christopher E. J. |
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| 内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||
| 内容記述 | This paper explores the antiquarian contexts of the opening sonnets in the first edition of William Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822). The first section of the Sketches explores the period from pre-Christian Britain to Norman Britain, including the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons. The paper looks at the language of the first five poems in this section, comparing their language and imagery to Wordsworth’s antiquarian sources. During the composition of these poems, Wordsworth was impatiently waiting for a package of books to add historical research to his writing. Evaluating which sonnets may have been composed with access to which antiquarian sources provides insight into Wordsworth’s parallel deployment of scholastic antiquarianism and Enlightenment scepticism. The paper argues that reading the Sketches for tensions between two streams of intellectual history— scholastic antiquarianism and Enlightenment virtuosity—illuminates important tensions in Wordsworth’s creative mind during the period of composition. The paper hypothesises that (a) tensions between antiquarian and Enlightenment knowledge in the Sketches shape their representations of self and mind; and similarly, that (b) tensions between the texts’ religious and intellectual convictions affect how the poems represent historical shifts between scholasticism and naturalism (antiquity and Enlightenment) in British history. Close readings of the first five sonnets in the Sketches, in the biographical context of what antiquarian sources Wordsworth had available to him during composition, allow us to draw conclusions as to how much Wordsworth depended on his antiquarian reading, and how much he resisted or rejected the arguments of these sources. The paper concludes that Wordsworth’s use of seventeenth-century and contemporary antiquarian sources such as Thomas Fuller’s The Church-History of Britain (1655) and Edward Davies’ Celtic Researches (1804) shows two opposite creative tendencies in the Sketches: (a) Wordsworth reading antiquarian sources but writing against them; and (b) Wordsworth not having access to antiquarian sources, and feeling that he cannot write ‘historically’ without them. As a productive result of these opposing impulses, Wordsworth sometimes turns to memory (including both biography and earlier antiquarian reading) for inspiration, and produces a more aesthetically vigorous, optimistic portrait of ancient religion in Britain. |
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| 言語 | en | |||||
| 書誌情報 |
ja : 人文科学研究 : キリスト教と文化 号 47, p. 51-96, 発行日 2016-03-31 |
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| 出版者 | 国際基督教大学 | |||||
| 言語 | ja | |||||
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| 収録物識別子 | 00733938 | |||||
