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Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism ii Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism Edward T. Duffy NEW YORK • LONDON • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 175 Fifth Avenue 50 Bedford Square New York London NY 10010 WC1B 3DP USA UK www.bloomsbury.com First published 2013 © Edward T. Duffy, 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury Academic or the author. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Duffy, Edward T. Secular mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English romanticism/Edward T. Duffy. p. cm. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 978-1-4411-2678-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) – ISBN 978-1-4411-1718-2 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Cavell, Stanley, 1926- 2. Literature–Philosophy. 3. Romanticism. I. Title. B945.C274D84 2013 191–dc23 2012036725 ISBN: HB: 978-1-4411-1718-2 PB: 978-1-4411-2678-8 ePub: 978-1-4411-9536-4 ePDF: 978-1-4411-8647-8 Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India What should we be without The dolphin’s arc, the dove’s return, These things in which we have seen ourselves and spoken? Ask us, prophet, how we shall call Our natures forth when that live tongue is all Dispelled, that glass obscured or broken In which we have said the rose of our love and the clean Horse of our courage, in which beheld The singing locust of the soul unshelled, And all we mean or wish to mean. Richard Wilbur, “Advice to a Prophet” vi for Barb così m’hai dilatata mia fidanza come ’l sol fa la rosa quando aperta tanto divien quant’ ell’ ha di possanza viii Contents Preface and Acknowledgments x 1 Stanley Cavell’s Redemptive Reading: A Philosophical Labor in Progress 1 2 Reading Romanticism 35 3 A Wordsworthian Calling of Thinking 85 4 Bursting from a Congregated Might of Vapors: Desire, Expression and Motive in Shelley 117 5 “The Breath Whose Might I Have Invoked in Song”: Epipsychidion and Adonais 133 6 Reviewing the Vision of The Triumph of Life 201 Notes 225 Bibliography 241 Index 247
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