Poetry, Media, and the Material Body: Autopoetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Ashley Miller

From the Romantic fascination with hallucinatory poetics to the turn-of-the-century mania for automatic writing, poetry in nineteenth-century Britain appears at crucial times to be oddly involuntary, out of the control of its producers and receivers alike. This elegant study addresses the question of how people understood those forms of written creativity that seem to occur independently of the writer's will. Through the study of the century's media...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108418961
• ISBN13: 9781108418966
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"