Science and sensation in Romantic poetry / Noel Jackson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jackson, Noel (Noel B.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:	Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 73
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only

Table of 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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