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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190404T101216
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190416T141500
SUMMARY:‘Sacred calling’: Romantic Authorship Models\, Wordsworth\, Eme
 rson\, and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:At around 1800 literary intellectuals become increasingly fasci
 nated by the idea that writing poetry should be about having extraordinary
  powers of ontological vision and a “higher language” no less revelato
 ry of transcendence than theological speculation. Prof. Leypoldt exemplifi
 es this view by comparing Wordsworth’s ambitious “Recluse Project” w
 ith Ralph Waldo Emerson’s shift from a minister in church to a “minist
 er of song” (Coleridge). The key question for Wordsworth and Emerson is 
 not whether they should apply themselves to the “field of religion” or
  “the field of a secular art” (as twentieth-century secularism has lik
 ed to frame the issue) but rather whether they will find ways of having au
 thentic ontological visions as opposed to merely repeating former generati
 on’s visions grown into pseudo-sacred dogmas. \\r\\nProf. Leypoldt wishe
 s to explore how the discourse of “sacred vocation” comes under pressu
 re if we move from the network of “sage-writers” (Coleridge\, Emerson\
 , Fuller\, Thoreau\, Arnold\, Ruskin) to the network of high-cultural “j
 ournalist novelists” (Dickens\, Bulwer-Lytton\, Disraeli\, Trollope\, Th
 ackeray\, George Eliot\, William Dean Howells\, Henry James)\, a parallel 
 literary universe in Anglophone letters whose vocabularies of secular real
 ism reject the romantic blurring of artistic and religious issues. His emp
 hasis on networks wishes to complicate simplistic narratives of temporal s
 uccession (romantic art-religion “succeeded” by mid-century secular re
 alism).
X-ALT-DESC:At around 1800 literary intellectuals become increasingly fascin
 ated by the idea that writing poetry should be about having extraordinary 
 powers of ontological vision and a “higher language” no less revelator
 y of transcendence than theological speculation. Prof. Leypoldt exemplifie
 s this view by comparing Wordsworth’s ambitious “Recluse Project” wi
 th Ralph Waldo Emerson’s shift from a minister in church to a “ministe
 r of song” (Coleridge). The key question for Wordsworth and Emerson is n
 ot whether they should apply themselves to the “field of religion” or 
 “the field of a secular art” (as twentieth-century secularism has like
 d to frame the issue) but rather whether they will find ways of having aut
 hentic ontological visions as opposed to merely repeating former generatio
 n’s visions grown into pseudo-sacred dogmas. \nProf. Leypoldt wishes to 
 explore how the discourse of “sacred vocation” comes under pressure if
  we move from the network of “sage-writers” (Coleridge\, Emerson\, Ful
 ler\, Thoreau\, Arnold\, Ruskin) to the network of high-cultural “journa
 list novelists” (Dickens\, Bulwer-Lytton\, Disraeli\, Trollope\, Thacker
 ay\, George Eliot\, William Dean Howells\, Henry James)\, a parallel liter
 ary universe in Anglophone letters whose vocabularies of secular realism r
 eject the romantic blurring of artistic and religious issues. His emphasis
  on networks wishes to complicate simplistic narratives of temporal succes
 sion (romantic art-religion “succeeded” by mid-century secular realism
 ).
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190416T160000
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