Thinking Through Poems : Composition, Emotion and Decision-Making in Romantic-Era Women's Novels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hacioglu, Yasemin Nurcan.

Series:

Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors.

Feminism and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

A new cognitive approach to the representation of composition in literature that examines five women novelists of the late 18th century and how they use imaginative poetic practices to attain emotional, practical and political agency.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Note on text

1 Making agency: Carving out new decisions and plots using poetry

1.1 Materials: Re-collaging (social) bodies

1.2 Emotions: New frameworks for feeling

1.3 Narratives: Reorganizing the rules of the gothic labyrinth

2 Ann Radcliffe: Instructing the imagination

2.1 Composition method

2.2 Constructing motivations

2.3 Agency: Redrafting the 'work in progress'

3 Charlotte Smith: Rescaffolding the social self

3.1 Soft gothic selves

3.2 Redistributing vampiric minds

3.3 Fragile masculinities: Disrupting social inheritances

4 Eleanor Sleath and Charlotte Dacre: Enacting new embodiments

4.1 Fresh bodies and self-perceptions

4.2 Transforming social dynamics

5 Amelia Opie: Plotting emotion

5.1 Using Romantic emotions

5.2 Composing emotional realizations

5.3 Disordering moral ends

6 Coda: Disarming smiles

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Other Format:

Print version: Hacioglu, Yasemin Nurcan Thinking Through Poems

ISBN:

9798765112144

9798765112137

OCLC:

1597389187