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Author:

Koehler, Margaret, 1972-

Title:

Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century / Margaret Koehler.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xii, 263 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
Psychology and literature--History--18th century.
Interest (Psychology)
Cognition in literature.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology
LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.

Summary:

""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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1137031123 (hardback)
9781137031129 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)792880355

LCCN:

2012018574

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)