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Coleridge, Schiller and Aesthetic Education »

Authors: Michael John Kooy
ISBN-13: 9780333749364, ISBN-10: 0333749367
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Michael John Kooy

Michael John Kooy is Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and Programme Director at the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick.

Book Synopsis

This is the first book of its kind to consider at length Coleridge's relationship to his near contemporary, Friedrich Schiller. Contrary to received opinion, the author shows that Schiller's notion of 'aesthetic education' was indeed valuable to Coleridge at an early stage in his career and that it helped to shape much of his work - from his theory of imagination and his notion of the clerisy to his views on women and his account of historical change. Combining close readings with historical research, this book challenges readers to rethink the radical potential of idealist aesthetics.

	Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction: Reading Coleridge through Schiller	1
1	Schiller and the Young Coleridge	9
	Schiller in the 1790s: Jena and Weimar
	Coleridge's reading of Schiller's early plays
	Beddoes and the Horae
2	Coleridge and Weimar Classicism	33
	Coleridge in Gottingen
	The aesthetics of Wallenstein
3	British Germanophiles	45
	The German Museum
	Schiller and the British literary press
	Coleridge's reading of Schiller's prose
4	Schiller's Poetry in Coleridge's Notebooks	67
	Gedichte Part 1: dejection and theological speculation
	Gedichte Part 2: pantheism, metrics, the 'beautiful soul'
	Coleridge abroad, Schiller abroad
	The Muses' Almanac and the new aesthetics
	Three translations
5	Semblance and Aesthetic Autonomy in Coleridge's Criticism	95
	Coleridge and The Critique of Judgement
	Autonomy in the Aesthetic Letters
	'Semblance' in Biographia Literaria
6	Aesthetic Education in Biographia Literaria, The Friend and the Lectures on Literature	115
	Aesthetic freedom / moral freedom
	Biographia and beyond: Schelling or Schiller?
	Didacticism
7	Coleridge's 'Aesthetic State'	141
	Bildung and politics
	'Cultivation' and the state
8	The Clerisy and Aesthetic Education	167
	Cultivating the nation
	Women in the 'Aesthetic State'
	Imagined female figures
9	Epilogue: Bildung and History	193
	Schiller's sublime history
	Coleridge, Bildung and providential history
	Notes	207
	Selected Bibliography	221
	Index	231