The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form

ISBN-13: 9780367876678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

D. B. Ruderman

Opis

This book refigures the significance of childhood in 19^th-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. It draws on new formalist and psychoanalytic perspectives to rethink

Spis treści

Introduction: "Infant Bud of Being"

1. "Blank Misgivings": Infancy in Wordsworth’s Ode

2. "When I First Saw the Child": Reverie in Erasmus Darwin and Coleridge

3. Merging and Emerging in the Work of Sara Coleridge

4. Bodies in Dissolve: Animal Magnetism and Infancy in Shelley

5. Stillborn Poetics and Tennyson’s Songs

Afterword: "An Echo to the Self": Augusta Webster’s Psychoanalytic Thought

O autorze

David Ruderman is Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University, USA.