Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century
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Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century identifies a pervasive cultivation of attention in eighteenth-century poetry. The book argues that a plea from a 1692 ode by William Congreve-'Let me be all, but my attention, dead'-embodies a wider aspiration in the period's poetry to explore overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention. It historicizes eighteenth-century accounts of attention and pioneers a link between the period's poetry and recent discussions of attention in cognitive psychology. It contributes to the largely neglected history of a psychological trait that has assumed a recent cultural urgency, and it repositions eighteenth-century poems as a collective model for assiduous reading and supple, wide-ranging attention.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1137031123
ISBN13:9781137031129
Release Date:November 2012
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:263 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"
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