Thesis (doctoral)--Université Lumière Lyon 2, 1996-1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-363).

Inaug.-diss.--Zürich. / Lebenslauf. Issued also as Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten. Bd. 15. "Literatur": p. 87-89.

Thesis--University of Florida. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 364-376.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-242).

Thesis--University of Illinois. / Photocopy (positive) made by University Microfilms. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 362-375.

Proefschrift--Amsterdam. / Preliminary note in Dutch. "Index des pièces de théâtre (1789-1830)": p. [92]-101. "Pièces représentées ou parues entre 1830 et 1843"; p. 101-103. "Stellingen": [3] p. laid in. "Bibliographie": p. [104]-109.

This dissertation reconsiders sacred tropes in the Romantic poetry of William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, and John Keats within the context of ascetic performances and written saints’ lives. I argue that reading these poets as ascetic figures helps us to better understand Romantic isolation as a deeply social engagement, for an ascetic rejects his social milieu in order to call for the sanctification of a corrupt community. Asceticism redraws the lines of Romantic immanent critique of nineteenth-century England and newly explains the ghostly afterlives of poets whose literary personae transcend their biographical lives. Furthermore, this study takes up the ways in which the foundational ascetic tropes of Romantic poetry bind the major poets together in an impenetrable canon of writers with holy vows to poetry and to each other. My readings examine different kinds of ascetic vocation at play in the work of each poet, and I ultimately argue that this traditional support for the Romantic canon demands that we reconsider our critical attachments to Romanticism as the beginning of a secular literary tradition.

No abstract included. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

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Los esfuerzos manifiestos en este trabajo se canalizan a presentar al lector un estudio sobre la obra de José María Díaz, merece, de vez en cuando, un estudio más o menos amplio de su producción artística. Todos somos los deudores de quienes mediante sus escritos nos entretienen e instruyen al compartir con nosotros sus experiencias e ideas, y parece que nos cumple manifestar de una manera o de otra nuestro agradecimento. Es esta actitud, pues, la que anima al autor del presente trabajo.