John L. Mahoney: A Profile

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. John L. Mahoney: A Profile xi
5. 1. Religion and Animal Rights in the Romantic Era 1
6. 2. Wordsworth and St. Francis: ‘‘A meeker man than this lived never.’’ 22
7. 3. Wordsworth’s Abbey Ruins 37
8. 4. Cowper, Wordsworth, and the Sacred Moment of Perception 54
9. 5. Wordsworth between God and Mammon: The Early ‘‘Spots of Time’’ and the Sublime as Sacramental Commodity 73
10. 6. Icons of Women in the Religious Sonnets of Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans 90
11. 7. Wordsworth’s ‘‘Immortality Ode’’ and Hopkins’ ‘‘The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo’’: In Pursuit of Transcendence 111
12. 8. Coleridge (and His Mariner) on the Soul: ‘‘As an exile in a far distant land’’ 128
13. 9. The Gothic Coleridge: Mythos and the Real 152
14. 10. ‘‘Sounding on His Way’’: Coleridgean Religious Dissent and Hazlitt’s Conversational Style 176
15. 11. Coleridge and De Quincey on Miracles 193
16. 12. Coleridge and Newman: The Centrality of Conscience 231
17. 13. ‘‘All About the Heart’’: The Material-Theology of Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer 256
18. Notes on Contributors 275
19. A Bibliography of the Works of John L. Mahoney 281
20. Index 291