A Modern Coleridge, 1st ed. 2015
Cultivation, Addiction, Habits

A Modern Coleridge shows the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction and habit in Coleridge's poetry and prose, and argues that these all revolve around the problematic nexus of a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's eminently modern idea of the 'human'.

Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction PART I: CULTIVATION 1. Cultivating Reason and the Will 2. The Shaping Spirit of Education 3. Staging Education: 'The Appeal to Law'. Wordsworth's 'Peter Bell'. And 'The Ancient Mariner' 4. Sympathy: Adam Smith and Coleridgean Education PART II: ADDICTION 5. Re-reading Culture and Addiction: Coleridge's Writings on Civilisation and Walter Benjamin's Analysis of Modernity and the Addict 6. Craving for Novelties - Craving for Novels: The Politics of Intoxicated Reading 7. He 'did not write, he acted poems': Kubla Khan, Luther and Rousseau PART III: HABITS 8. 'habits of active industry' (AI, 49) 9. The Habit of 'abstruse research': 'Dejection: and Ode' Conclusion: Cultivation through Love: 'Effusion XXXV' and 'The Eolian Harp' Bibliography Index