Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 73) - Hardcover

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Jackson, Noel

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Synopsis

Romantic poets, notably Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats, were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience operate, and in the connections between sense-perception and aesthetic experience. Noel Jackson tracks this preoccupation through the Romantic period and beyond, both in relation to late eighteenth-century human sciences, and in the context of momentous social transformations in the period of the French Revolution. Combining close readings of the poems with interdisciplinary research into the history of the human sciences, Noel Jackson sheds light on Romantic efforts to define how art is experienced in relation to the newly emerging sciences of the mind and shows the continued relevance of these ideas to our own habits of cultural and historical criticism today. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Romanticism, but also to those interested in the intellectual interrelations between literature and science.

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Noel Jackson is Associate Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (edited by author)

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ISBN 10:  0521188695 ISBN 13:  9780521188692
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