Watchwords : Romanticism and the poetics of attention / Lily Gurton-Wachter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurton-Wachter, Lily, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and readers.

Attention--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Attention.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Close formal readings of the poetry of Blake, Coleridge, Cowper, Keats, (Charlotte) Smith, and Wordsworth, in conversation with research into Enlightenment philosophy and political and military discourses, suggest the variety of forces competing for, or commanding, attention in the 19th century. This new framework for interpreting Romanticism and its legacy illuminates what turns out to be an ongoing tradition of war literature that, rather than give testimony to or represent warfare, uses rhythm and verse to experiment with how and what we attend to during times of war.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Attention's Disciplines; 1. Reading, a Double Attention; 2. The Poetics of Alarm and the Passion of Listening; 3. Bent Earthwards: Wordsworth's Poetics of the Interval; 4. "That Something Living Is Abroad": Missing the Point in Beachy Head; 5. Attention's Aches in Keats's Hyperion Poems; Afterword: Just Looking; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804798761

0804798761

OCLC:

951973355