Author |
Jackson, Noel |
Year |
2008 |
Publisher |
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
Number of pages |
308 |
ISBN |
9780521188692 |
Keywords |
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Abstract
Amazon (2013):
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.