UID:
almahu_9948607174102882
Format:
1 online resource (320 pages) :
,
illustrations (colour).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780191890413 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This text offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm. Protestant religious writing was of two minds about futurity, swinging back and forth between patience for the resurrected body and desire for the released soul. This ancient pattern carried over, the work argues, into understandings of poetry as a modern devotional practice.
Note:
This edition also issued in print: 2020.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780198857792
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
