Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 263 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137031129 (hardback) 1137031123 (hardback) |