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Science and sensation in Romantic poetry
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Title
Science and sensation in Romantic poetry / Noel Jackson.
ISBN
9780521869379 (hardback : alk. paper)
0521869374 (hardback : alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xiv, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 09, 2008
Series
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 73
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-283) and index.
Contents
Introduction : lyrical forms and empirical realities : reading Romanticism's "language of the sense"
Senses of history : between the mind and the world
Powers of suggestion : sensation, revolution, and Romantic aesthetics
The "sense of history" and the history of the senses : periodizing perception in Wordsworth and Blake
Senses of community : lyric subjectivity and "the culture of the feelings"
Critical conditions : Coleridge, "common sense," and the literature of self-experiment
Sense and consensus : Wordsworth, aesthetic culture, and the poet-physician
The persistence of the aesthetic : afterlives of Romanticism
John Keats and the sense of the future
More than a feeling? : Walter Pater, Wilkie Collins, and the legacies of Wordsworthian aesthetics.
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