Patterns of Epiphany: From Wordsworth to Tolstoy, Pater, and Barrett Browning

by Martin Bidney

After explaining his new methodology, Bidney identifies and discusses epiphanies in the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walter Pater, Thomas Carlyle, Leo Tolstoy, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Taking his cue from the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, Bidney postulates that any writer's epiphany pattern usually shows characteristic elements (earth, air, fire, water), patterns of motion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809321165
• ISBN13: 9780809321162
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"