Language of the Senses : Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson.
Title:
Language of the Senses : Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson.
Author:
McSweeney, Kerry.
ISBN:
9780773567276
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Note on Texts and Citations -- 1. Organic Sensibility -- 2. Symbolic Perception -- 3. Sublime or Mock Sublime? -- 4. Wordsworth's Mighty World of Eye and Ear -- 5. Coleridge's Blessed Interval -- 6. Thoreau: A Purely Sensuous Life -- 7. Whitman: The Feeling of Health -- 8. Dickinson: The Glimmering Frontier -- 9. Afterword: Two Victorian Seers -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
In this stimulating and original analysis of some of the most important nineteenth-century poems in English, Kerry McSweeney offers an alternative to non-referential and New Historicist critical methods.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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