Romantic Dynamics: The Poetics of Physicality (Romanticism in Perspective) [Hardcover]

Mark Lussier (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0333718917 | ISBN-13: 978-0333718919 | Publication Date: June 2000

Romantic Dynamics: the Poetics of Physicality creatively collides English Romantic poetry with a wide range of concepts from contemporary theoretical physics in an attempt to track shared assumptions in their models of material and mental dynamics. The work calls into question the perceived tension between Romantic poetics and physical theory and links such perceptions to recent backlashes against various modes of postmodern criticism. Romantic Dynamics uncovers considerable confluence between the physical models of mind and matter constructed within Romantic poetry and those articulated by contemporary physical theory, from cosmology to neuroscience. This interdisciplinary work traces the elaboration of dynamical models of cosmos and consciousness in works by Blake, Byron, Coleridge, the Shelleys and Wordsworth, finding in those works an exploration of the interpenetration of psyche and phenomena. This model, the author argues, establishes a new metaphoric terrain liberated from the classical mechanics of Newtonian thought and more easily traversed with models articulated by Bohr, Einstein and Hawking.

Editorial Reviews

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This is a very fine book, indeed, which makes a real contribution to our understanding of Romanticism, science, and ecological thought. Romantic Circles Review

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

MARK LUSSIER teaches Literature as an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies. His publications include Perspective as a Problem in the Art, History and Literature of Early Modern England (co-edited with S.K. Heninger Jr.) and Blake Reading/Reading Blake (guest edited issue of New Orleans Review). His essays in William Blake and Romanticism have appeared in Arts Quarterly, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, New Orleans Review Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Studies in Romanticism, Visible Language, and The Wordsworth Circle.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (June 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0333718917
• ISBN-13: 978-0333718919
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,679,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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