UID:
almahu_9947979308502882
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780191865886 (ebook) :
Content:
'Fossil Poetry' provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in 19th-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry. 'Fossil Poetry' takes its title from a famous passage on 'early' language in the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and uses the metaphor of the fossil to contextualize poetic Anglo-Saxonism within the developments that had been taking place in the fields of geology, palaeontology, and the evolutionary life sciences since James Hutton's apprehension of 'deep time' in his 1788 'Theory of the Earth.'
Note:
This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780198824527
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824527.001.0001
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