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Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Supernatural Will in American Literature (Paperback)
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Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Supernatural Will in American Literature (Paperback)
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In a work that will be of interest to students and scholars of
American Literature, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, the History of
Ideas,and Religious Studies, Brad Bannon examines Samuel Taylor
Coleridge's engagement with the philosophical theology of Jonathan
Edwards. A closer look at Coleridge's response to Edwards clarifies
the important influence that both thinkers had on seminal works of
the nineteenth century, ranging from the antebellum period to the
aftermath of the American Civil War-from Poe's fiction and
Emerson's essays to Melville's Billy Budd and Crane's The Red Badge
of Courage. Similarly, Coleridge's early espousal of an
abolitionist theology that had evolved from Edwards and been shaped
by John Woolman and Olaudah Equiano sheds light on the way that
American Romantics later worked to affirm a philosophy of
supernatural self-determination. Ultimately, what Coleridge offered
the American Romantics was a supernatural modification of Edwards'
theological determinism, a compromise that provided Emerson and
other nineteenth-century thinkers with an acceptable extension of
an essentially Calvinist theology. Indeed, a thoroughgoing
skepticism with respect to salvation, as well as a faith in the
absolute inscrutability of Providence, led both the
Transcendentalists and the Dark Romantics to speculate freely on
the possibility of supernatural self-determination while doubting
that anything other than God, or nature, could harness the power of
causation.
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