Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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“…Coleridge’s map (Figure 5) is perhaps unsurprising in that the eye is drawn to a cluster located to the east of the head of Wastwater at a site where Sca Fell runs down into the vale of Eskdale. The identification of this place‐name cluster corresponds with Coleridge’s textual documentation of the descent of Broad Stand: a vertiginous precipice on Sca Fell that Coleridge famously introduces, in a letter to Sara Hutchinson (Coleridge 1956, 841), with the declaration that there ‘is one sort of Gambling, to which I am much addicted’. Gray’s density‐smoothed map (Figure 4) is perhaps of greater interest in that the linearity of the touristic route becomes visually subsumed by a dominant spatial pattern clustered on urban centres.…”

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“…Three anonymous referees also made helpful and supportive comments on drafts of this article which we are very grateful for. We would like to thank Oxford University Press for their kind permission to quote from: Gray (1971) Correspondence of Thomas Gray, and Coleridge (1956) Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (http://www.oup.co.uk). Extracts from Coleridge (1957) The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge are reproduced by permission of the Taylor & Francis Group (http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com).…”

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Mapping the English Lake District: a literary GIS

Cooper

Gregory

2010

Trans Inst British Geog

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To date, much of the work that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to study human geographies applies a social science paradigm to quantitative data. There is a growing recognition of the need, however, to test whether GIS can be used to map out the qualitative ‘data’ provided by the articulation of subjective spatial experiences. This paper expands the conceptual possibilities opened up by the use of GIS technology through an exploration of the theoretical potentiality of literary GIS. Drawing on work carried out as part of an interdisciplinary project, ‘Mapping the Lakes’, the paper focuses on the ways in which GIS can be used to explore the spatial relationships between two textual accounts of tours of the English Lake District: the proto‐Picturesque journey undertaken by the poet, Thomas Gray, in the autumn of 1769; and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s self‐consciously post‐Picturesque ‘circumcursion’ of August 1802. Alongside this text‐specific focus, the paper also draws on recent spatial literary criticism to reflect, more generally, on the critical possibilities and problems associated with the digital mapping of space and place in literature. Ultimately, the paper seeks to open up methodological and critical space for the ongoing development of literary GIS.

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Mapping the English Lake District: a literary GIS

Cooper

Gregory

2010

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Like the smaller, more portable kenur tal-fuhhar, it could be fuelled with brushwood or anything else found to burn. Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1962Coleridge ( : 2104 notes that it was the custom of the Maltese to 'dress their food out at their doors on pots of fire', the 'pots of fire' presumably referring to the kenur or kenur tal-fuhhar. In Figure 15.…”

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“…The Malta Blue Book of 1880 records the importation of over 10,000 live bullocks for consumption, with 5127 coming from Barbary, 4102 from Tunis, 468 from Algiers, and 310 from Russia. Once on the island, they were 'fed on cotton seed' which, according to Coleridge (1962Coleridge ( : 2294, resulted in a 'fat [that] congeals quickly & sticks worse than suet to the roof of the mouth'. Despite the increased availability of meat, vegetables were still an important constituent of the diet.…”

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Maltese Ceramics and Imperial Foodways: An Exploration of Nineteenth-Century Red Wares

Palmer

2014

Eur. j. archaeol.

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The archaeological study of recent periods in Malta is in its infancy. Despite the high potential for an historical archaeology of Malta contributing to broader issues such as an understanding of Mediterranean trade and colonialism, as well as the cultural history of Malta, the archaeological resource has remained under-explored. The aim of this article is to address the situation and offer an initial classification and interpretation of local and imported red earthenware ceramics. It will demonstrate the need for such work in relation to answering questions relating to local production, international trade, and foodways.

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“…This paper will begin to examine in a speculative way the relation between the verse stanzas and the prose notes that make up the text of Darwin's The Temple of Nature , the text in which, according to later critics, Darwin most successfully lays out his early, working theory of evolution (one that explicitly links biological with social and cultural evolution), but which many of his contemporaries found more than a little wanting: Coleridge, who had once referred to Darwin as the “the first literary character in Europe and the most original‐minded man” (1: 305), saw fit to condemn The Temple of Nature , among other of Darwin's writings, as virtually heretical, an opinion shared by many reviewers of Darwin's poems . On the larger scale, this work is part of an on‐going effort to engage with the complex interweaving of science and literature (terms that should be considered as broadly as possible) that forms and informs Darwin's work and increasingly informs Romantic Studies.…”

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Darwin, Paratext and the Modes of Knowing

Allard

2016

Literature Compass

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This paper examines the relation between the verse stanzas and the prose notes (both the extensive footnotes and the even more extensive “additional notes”) of Erasmus Darwin's The Temple of Nature or The Origin of Society: A Poem. With Philosophic Notes (1803) in an effort to engage with the complex interweaving of science and literature that forms Darwin's work and increasingly informs Romantic Studies. Beginning with the simple assertion that the notes are far more integral to the text than the subordination implied in the titular “with” might suggest – in fact, that the notes are, in some important ways, the point of the text – I argue that what critics often refer to as Darwin's “masterwork” interrogates the very notion of “mastery” itself by working at once to perform and to foster a critical sense of what we might call “interdisciplinarity”: an effort neither to erect nor to erode disciplinary boundaries at points of intersection but an interest in engaging with the “space” of the boundary itself. As Darwin notes in the preface, “The Poem, which is here offered to the Public, does not pretend to instruct by deep researches of reasoning; its aim is simply to amuse by bringing distinctly to the imagination the beautiful and sublime images of the operations of Nature in the order, as the Author believes, in which the progressive course of time presented them.” On the one hand, this claim clearly conveys Darwin's concern with instruction, with “bringing distinctly to the imagination” and the “deep researches of reasoning,” even as it downplays; perhaps, more “traditional” modes of teaching and even, by extension, works to revise our understanding of what is worth teaching. On the other hand, it suggests that a Romantic concern with the beautiful and sublime is as at home in the “deep researches of reasoning” and the “operations of Nature” as it is in any poem. And, however, we may choose to inflect that claim; the text is more than simply a didactic poem teaching a proto‐evolutionary, clearly medicalized version of biological, sociological and cultural development. It is an extensive commentary on the interrelation of the medical and the social, the biological and the poetic and, not least, on the nature of didacticism itself, on the hows and whys of instructing and learning in an environment and at a time when the limits of the known and the knowable and the sense of promise and anxiety fostered by changing disciplinary boundaries were under constant scrutiny. By examining the interaction between the “main” text and the paratext, I explore how one of the period's most diverse thinkers and writers negotiated the diversity of knowledge and modes of knowing that made his work so popular and influential and, most importantly, how he taught and can still teach ways for readers to manage the critical if contentious interdisciplinarity that will continue to dominate our own deep researches.

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Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cited by 34 publications

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Mapping the English Lake District: a literary GIS

Mapping the English Lake District: a literary GIS

Maltese Ceramics and Imperial Foodways: An Exploration of Nineteenth-Century Red Wares

Darwin, Paratext and the Modes of Knowing

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