Table of Contents: Patterns of epiphany :

Main Author:	Bidney, Martin.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.
Subjects:	Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, > 1806-1861 > Criticism and interpretation. Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850 > Criticism and interpretation. Tolstoy, Leo, > 1828-1910 > Criticism and interpretation. Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Criticism and interpretation. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, > 1806-1861 > Critique et interprétation. Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850 > Critique et interprétation. Tolstoy, Leo, > 1828-1910 > Critique et interprétation. Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Critique et interprétation. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, > 1806-1861. Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894. Tolstoy, Leo, > 1828-1910. Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850. Tolstoj, Lev N. English literature > History and criticism. > 19th century Epiphanies in literature. Romanticism. Epifanías en la literatura. Romanticismo. Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique. > 19e siècle Épiphanies (Insight) dans la littérature. Romantisme. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature. Epiphanie. Englisch.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : how epiphanies are made
A pilgrim's dream of apocalypse : radiant geometry in Wordsworthian epiphanies
Fitful motions, fragil forms : elemental conflict in Coleridge
Duplicitous welcomers : water-fire epiphanies in Arnold
Love and liminality in Tennyson : the aweful dawn-rose and the wheel
Beauty and pain in Pater : the red-yellow fire flower, the dying white bird
Epiphanies from Odin to Teufelsdrockh : Carlylean heroism and the gospel of fire
Water, movement, roundness : epiphanies and history in Tolstoy's War and peace
Turning stones to fire : the apocalypse according to Barrett Browning
Conclusion : fifteen theses.