Science and sensation in British romantic poetry
By: Noel Jackson.
Series: Cambridge studies in romanticism -- no. 73
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521869379
Subjects: English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Senses and sensation in architecture; 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: lyrical forms and empirical realities : reading romanticism's "language of the sense"; title: Senses of history : between the mind and the world; title: Powers of suggestion : sensation, revolution, and romantic aesthetics; title: The "sense of history" and the history of the senses : periodizing perception in Wordsworth and Blake; title: Senses of community : lyric subjectivity and "the culture of the feelings"; title: Critical conditions : Coleridge, "common sense," and the literature of self-experiment; title: Sense and consensus : Wordsworth, aesthetic culture, and the poet-physician; title: The persistence of the aesthetic : afterlives of romanticism; title: John Keats and the sense of the future; title: More than a feeling? Walter Pater, Wilkie Collins, and the legacies of Wordsworthian aesthetics.