Romantic Dynamics
Subtitle: The Poetics of Physicality (Romanticism in Perspective)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 17, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780312226718
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; 19th Century English Poetry; Literary Criticism; Poetry; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; Chaotic behavior in systems in literature; English poetry; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Literature And Science
Description: "Romantic Dynamics: the Poetics of Physicality creatively collides English Romantic poetry with a wide range of concepts from contemporary theoretical physics in an attempt to track shared assumptions in their models of material and mental dynamics. The work calls into question the perceived tension between Romantic poetics and physical theory and links such perceptions to recent backlashes against various modes of postmodern criticism.

This interdisciplinary work traces the elaboration of dynamical models of cosmos and consciousness in works by Blake, Byron, Coleridge, the Shelleys and Wordsworth, finding in those works an exploration of the interpenetration of psyche and phenomena."--BOOK JACKET.