The idea of infancy in nineteenth-century British poetry romanticism, subjectivity, form

This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and...

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Other Authors: Ruderman, D.B (auth), Ruderman, D. B. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Taylor & Francis 2016
2016.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Routledge studies in romanticism ; 22.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654748406719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Infant Bud of Being""; 1 ""Blank Misgivings"": Infancy in Wordsworth's Ode; 2 ""When I First Saw the Child"": Reverie in Erasmus Darwin and Coleridge; 3 Merging and Emerging in the Work of Sara Coleridge; 4 Bodies in Dissolve: Animal Magnetism and Infancy in Shelley; 5 Stillborn Poetics and Tennyson's Songs; Afterword: ""An Echo to the Self"": Augusta Webster's Psychoanalytic Thought; Bibliography; Index