Poetry, media, and the material body : autopoetics in nineteenth-century Britain / Ashley Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Ashley M., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Poetics.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 197 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"What does it mean to be an agent of poetry? This is a question that was asked with increasing urgency throughout the nineteenth century, and for good reason. With literacy on the rise, more people were reading and writing than ever before; changes in media technology meant that these readers and writers were encountering poetry in newly material ways; and in the midst of it all, the status of poetry as a genre was shifting in relation to the rise of the novel. Querying the role of poetry in the modern age, nineteenth-century writers repeatedly attempt to determine its contours, to dictate what it means to write poetry and even what it means to read it"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the material muse in nineteenth-century poetry

Striking passages : vision, memory, and the romantic imprint

Internal impressions : self-sympathy and the poetry of sensation

Listening with the mouth : Tennyson's Deaths of Arthur

Poetic afterlives : automatic writing and the mechanics of quotation

Conclusion : the autonomous poem : new criticism and the stock response.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108418966

1108418961

OCLC:

1048658964