Poetry, Media, and the Material Body - Autopoetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

This book investigates the often surprising intersections and overlaps between three infrequently related fields: studies of poetry, studies of media, and studies of the body. At these intersections a neglected nineteenth-century theory of poetry becomes visible, one that imagines the body as a reproductive medium for poetry.

List of contents

Introduction: the material muse in nineteenth-century poetry; 1. Striking passages: vision, memory, and the romantic imprint; 2. Internal impressions: self-sympathy and the poetry of sensation; 3. Listening with the mouth: Tennyson's deaths of Arthur; 4. Poetic afterlives: automatic writing and the mechanics of quotation; Conclusion: the autonomous poem: new criticism and the stock response; Bibliography.

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.

Summary

This book investigates the often surprising intersections and overlaps between three infrequently related fields: studies of poetry, studies of media, and studies of the body. At these intersections a neglected nineteenth-century theory of poetry becomes visible, one that imagines the body as a reproductive medium for poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley Miller, Ashley (Albion College Miller, Miller Ashley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108408585
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40858-5
• No. of pages: 211
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets