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Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel´s philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel´s theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley, arguing that they, as Hegel, are engaged in a struggle towards philosophical recognition.

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Introduction i. A Discrimination of Vriticisms ii. Why ´philosophical romanticism´ iii. Romantic Embodiment iv. Chapter Breakdown PART I: HEGELIAN ROMANTICISM AND THE SYMBIOTIC ALTERITY OF AUTONOMY AND RECEPTIVITY 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Hegel´s Conception of Recognition in an Aesthetic Light 1.3 Hegel´s Response to Romantic Art 1.4 Hegel and Romantic Metaphysics 1.5 Hegel´s Aesthetics in the Modern Context PART II: PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL INTUITION IN COLERIDGE´S POETICS 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Coleridge´s Philosophical Dichotomy 2.3 Coleridge´s Theological Escape from Aporia 2.4 Symbol and Allegory in Coleridge 2.5 The Deconstruction of Allegory and Symbol in ´Kubla Khan´ 2.6 The Antagonists of the Imagination in ´Kubla Khan´ 2.7 Coleridge´s ´unhappy consciousness´ in ´Frost at Midnight´ 2.8 The Aporetic Recognition through Joy in ´Dejection´ 2.9 Recognitive Breakdown in ´Constancy to an Ideal Object´ PART III: WORDSWORTH´S METAPHYSICAL EQUIPOISE 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Wordsworth and Romantic Metaphysics 3.3 Wordsworth´s Ladder 3.4 Dialectical Criticism of Wordsworth 3.5 Contingency and Embodiment 3.6 Doubt and Embodiment in ´Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798.´ 3.7 ´Home´ at Grasmere: Embodiment 3.8 The Unifying Nature of the Wordsworthian Symbol 3.9 Conclusion PART IV: DIALECTICAL COLLAPSE AND POST-ROMANTIC RECOGNITION IN SHELLEY 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Shelley´s Quest for the Imagination upon Mont Blanc 4.3 Visionary Alienation in ´Alastor´ 4.4 Eschatological Projection in ´Adonais´ 4.5 Wonder, Transfiguration and Irony in ´The Triumph of Life´ PART V: THE CONTINGENT LIMITS OF ROMANTIC MYTH MAKING 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Romantic Discourse of Wordsworth and Coleridge 5.3 Shelley´s Second-order Discourse 5.4 Embodied Scepticism: Frankenstein 5.5 Conclusion

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Dr. Wayne Deakin is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Language at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He has published a number of academic articles, including "Acknowledgment and Avoidance in Coleridge and Hölderlin" and is currently writing a book on Hegel, Marx and modern Thai culture.

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