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Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century
- Title
- Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century / Margaret Koehler.
- Author
- Koehler, Margaret, 1972-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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- Description
- xii, 263 p.; 23 cm.
- 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"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-1624
- ISBN
- 9781137031129 (hardback)
- 1137031123 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012018574
- OCLC
- 792880355
- Author
- Koehler, Margaret, 1972-
- Title
- Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century / Margaret Koehler.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-1624