Electric Meters : Victorian Physiological Poetics, Hardcover by Rudy, Jason R...

by Jason R. Rudy

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Electric Meters : Victorian Physiological Poetics, Hardcover by Rudy, Jason R., ISBN 0821418823, ISBN-13 9780821418826, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Rudy (English, U. of Maryland at College Park) argues that Victorian poetry was characterized by a "physiological poetics" in which metrical, rhythmic, and sonic effects, along with other poetic features, were conceived of as having bodily effects as a central aspect of poetic transmission. Moreover, the physiological poetics of Victorian poetry cannot be separated from the development of the electrical sciences during the same period because much of 19th century electrical theory had to do with human bodies, including the ways that individual human bodies can connect to one another. Electricity served the Victorian poets as a tool for thinking about how poetry connects to human communities, and thus as a tool for thinking about the political consequences of poetry. He advances this argument through discussions of Alfred Tennyson's The Princess; the little known working-class poets known as the "Spasmodics" by their detractors; and works by Coventry Patmore, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, and Mathilde Blind. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Year: 2009
• ISBN: 9780821418826
• Condition: Fine

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