The Revivifying Word: Literature, Philosophy, and the Theory of Life in Europe's Romantic Age

by Clayton Koelb

Reading as key to the mysterious relation between lifeless material bodies and living, animate beings in Romantic fiction and thought.

What is not Life that really is? asked Coleridge, struggling, like many poets, philosophers, and scientists of Europe's Romantic age, to formulate a theory of life that explained the mysterious relation between dead material bodies and living, animate beings. Romantic intellectuals found a key to this mystery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133887
• ISBN13: 9781571133885
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"