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Poetry, media, and the material body : autopoetics in nineteenth-century Britain
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Poetry, media, and the material body : autopoetics in nineteenth-century Britain / Ashley Miller.
ISBN
9781108418966
1108418961
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
vii, 197 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"What does it mean to be an agent of poetry? This is a question that was asked with increasing urgency throughout the nineteenth century, and for good reason. With literacy on the rise, more people were reading and writing than ever before; changes in media technology meant that these readers and writers were encountering poetry in newly material ways; and in the midst of it all, the status of poetry as a genre was shifting in relation to the rise of the novel. Querying the role of poetry in the modern age, nineteenth-century writers repeatedly attempt to determine its contours, to dictate what it means to write poetry and even what it means to read it"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 19, 2018
Series
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the material muse in nineteenth-century poetry
Striking passages : vision, memory, and the romantic imprint
Internal impressions : self-sympathy and the poetry of sensation
Listening with the mouth : Tennyson's Deaths of Arthur
Poetic afterlives : automatic writing and the mechanics of quotation
Conclusion : the autonomous poem : new criticism and the stock response.
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