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Science and sensation in Romantic poetry / Noel Jackson
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 73Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780521869379
- 0521869374
- English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Senses and sensation in literature
- Mind and body in literature
- Perception in literature
- Aesthetics in literature
- Poets, English -- Aesthetics
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Romanticism -- Great Britain
- Body and soul in literature
- ARCH YNDC 821.70 J12S 22
- PR590 .J33 2008
Contents:
Summary: Romantic poets, notably Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats, were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience operate, and in the connections between sense-perception and aesthetic experience. Noel Jackson tracks this preoccupation through the Romantic period and beyond
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-283) and index
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
Romantic poets, notably Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats, were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience operate, and in the connections between sense-perception and aesthetic experience. Noel Jackson tracks this preoccupation through the Romantic period and beyond
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