By Lily Gurton-Wachter
ISBN-10: 0804796955
ISBN-13: 9780804796958
This e-book revisits British Romanticism as a poetics of heightened recognition. on the flip of the 19th century, as Britain was once at the alert for a potential French invasion, consciousness turned a phenomenon of common curiosity, one who aligned and distinctive an strange diversity of fields (including drugs, aesthetics, theology, ethics, pedagogy, and politics). inside of this wartime context, the Romantic aesthetic culture seems as a reaction to a difficulty in awareness brought on by calls for on either infantrymen and civilians to maintain watch. shut formal readings of the poetry of Blake, Coleridge, Cowper, Keats, (Charlotte) Smith, and Wordsworth, in dialog with examine into Enlightenment philosophy and political and army discourses, recommend the range of forces competing for—or commanding—attention within the interval. This new framework for examining Romanticism and its legacy illuminates what seems to be an ongoing culture of battle literature that, instead of provide testimony to or symbolize battle, makes use of rhythm and verse to scan with how and what we attend to in periods of war.
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