Poetry, media, and the material body: autopoetics in nineteenth-century Britain

"What does it mean to be an agent of poetry? This is a question that was asked with increasing urgency throughout the nineteenth century, and for good reason. With literacy on the rise, more people were reading and writing than ever before; changes in media technology meant that these readers a...

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Main Author: Miller, Ashley ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 113
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Summary:"What does it mean to be an agent of poetry? This is a question that was asked with increasing urgency throughout the nineteenth century, and for good reason. With literacy on the rise, more people were reading and writing than ever before; changes in media technology meant that these readers and writers were encountering poetry in newly material ways; and in the midst of it all, the status of poetry as a genre was shifting in relation to the rise of the novel. Querying the role of poetry in the modern age, nineteenth-century writers repeatedly attempt to determine its contours, to dictate what it means to write poetry and even what it means to read it"
Item Description:Literaturangaben: Seite 181-193
Physical Description:vii, 197 Seiten
ISBN:9781108418966

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