Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century
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Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century

  1. 268 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century

About this book

By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781137031129
eBook ISBN
9781137313607
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: “Let Me Be All, but My Attention, Dead”
  6. Chapter 1: History and Theory of Attention in the Eighteenth Century
  7. Chapter 2: The Filter of Attention in Mock-Heroic Poetry
  8. Chapter 3: Odes of Absorption
  9. Chapter 4: Multiple Sensory Modalities of Attention
  10. Chapter 5: Landscape Poetry I The Discovery of Receptivity
  11. Chapter 6: Landscape Poetry II The Practice of Receptivity
  12. Chapter 7: Cowper’s Task of Attention
  13. Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Blank Page
  18. Blank Page
  19. Blank Page

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