Wordsworth and the poetics of air: atmospheric Romanticism in a time of climate change

Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word 'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift of meaning, which he see...

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1. Verfasser: Ford, Thomas H. ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in Romanticism 121
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Zusammenfassung:Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word 'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Gradually 'air' and 'atmosphere' took on the new status of metaphor as Wordsworth and other poets re-imagined poetry as a textual area of aerial communication - conveying the breath of a transitory moment to other times and places via the printed page. Reading Romantic poetry through this ecological and ecocritical lens Ford goes on to ask what the poems of the Romantic period mean for us in a new age of climate change, when the relationship between physical climates and cultural, political and literary atmospheres is once again being transformed
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Introduction: An ecophilology of atmosphere -- Atmospheric romanticism -- Atmospheric mediation -- Romantic meteorology -- Atmospheric aesthetics -- In the breathing chamber: "lines written a few miles above" -- Conclusion: Romantic poetry after climate change
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 269 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108569316
DOI:10.1017/9781108569316

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