Watchwords : Romanticism and the poetics of attention / Lily Gurton-Wachter.
Material type: TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780804798761
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- English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Attention -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Romanticism -- Great Britain
- Poetics
- Literature -- Philosophy
- Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Écrivains et lecteurs -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Attention -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Romantisme -- Grande-Bretagne
- Poétique
- POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Attention
- Authors and readers
- English poetry
- Poetics
- Romanticism
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Lyrik
- Romantik
- Aufmerksamkeit Motiv
- 1800-1899
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- PR590 .G84 2016eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : attention's disciplines -- Reading, a double attention -- The poetics of alarm & the passion of listening -- Bent earthwards : Wordsworth's poetics of the interval -- "That something living is abroad" : missing the point in Beachy Head -- Attention's aches in Keats's Hyperion poems -- Afterword : just looking.
Print version record.
This book revisits British Romanticism as a poetics of heightened attention. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as Britain was on the alert for a possible French invasion, attention became a phenomenon of widespread interest, one that aligned and distinguished an unusual range of fields (including medicine, aesthetics, theology, ethics, pedagogy, and politics). Within this wartime context, the Romantic aesthetic tradition appears as a response to a crisis in attention caused by demands on both soldiers and civilians to keep watch. 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 period. 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.--Publisher website.
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