The connected condition : Romanticism and the dream of communication / Yohei Igarashi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Igarashi, Yohei, 1979- author.

Series:

Text technologies.

Stanford scholarship online.

Text technologies

Stanford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Communication--England--History--18th century.

Communication.

Romanticism--England.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages).

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

How can Romantic poetry, motivated by the poet's intense yearning to impart his thoughts and feelings, be so often difficult and the cause of readerly misunderstanding? How did it come to be that a poet can compose a verbal artwork, carefully and lovingly put together, and send it out into the world at the same time that he is adopting a stance against communication? This book addresses these questions by showing that the period's writers were responding to the beginnings of our networked world of rampant mediated communication. The Connected Condition reveals that major Romantic poets shared a great attraction and skepticism toward the dream of perfectible, efficient connectivity that has driven the modern culture of communication.

Contents:

Introduction : the dream of communication

Scribble-scrabble genius : Coleridge, transcription, and the shorthand effect

Wordsworth and bureaucratic form

Shelley amid the age of separations; or, a poetry of ambiversion for networked life

Keats's ways : the dark passages of mediation and giving up hyperion

Conclusion : communication and literary competence, anew.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

9781503610736

150361073X

OCLC:

1198929427