Poetry, Media, and the Material Body: Autopoetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
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Ashley Miller (Author)
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From the Romantic fascination with hallucinatory poetics to the turn-of-the-century mania for automatic writing, poetry in nineteenth-century Britain appears at crucial times to be oddly involuntary, out of the control of its producers and receivers alike. This elegant study addresses the question of how people understood those forms of written creativity that seem to occur independently of the writer's will. Through the study of the century's media revolutions, evolving theories of physiology, and close readings of the works of nineteenth-century poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge and Tennyson, Ashley Miller articulates how poetry was imagined to promote involuntary bodily responses in both authors and readers, and how these responses enlist the body as a medium that does not produce poetry but rather reproduces it. This is a poetics that draws attention to, rather than effaces, the mediacy of the body in the processes of composition and reception. Worked examples or Exercises
About the Author
Ashley Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Albion College, Michigan. Her work on a wide variety of topics in Romantic and Victorian literary studies has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Studies in Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Literature Compass, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
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- Contributor: Ashley Miller
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9781108418966
- Number of Pages: 210
- Packaged Dimensions: 157x235x15mm
- Packaged Weight: 490
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2018-08-09
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Ashley Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Albion College, Michigan. Her work on a wide variety of topics in Romantic and Victorian literary studies has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Studies in Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Literature Compass, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
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