Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century

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.

List of contents

Introduction: 'Let me be all, but my attention, dead' History and Theory of Attention in the Eighteenth Century The Filter of Attention and Indissoluble Attractors in Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poetry Multiple Sensory Modalities of Attention Landscape Poetry I: The Discovery of Receptivity Landscape Poetry II: The Practice of Receptivity Cowper's Task of Attention Odes of Absorption 'Attention is everywhere'

About the author

Margaret Koehler is an associate professor of English at Otterbein University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: M Koehler, M. Koehler
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2012
• EAN: 9781349440726
• ISBN: 978-1-349-44072-6
• No. of pages: 275
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Poetry, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, cognitive psychology, Poetry and Poetics, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, attention;history of literature;poetry