| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Stanford text technologies
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Text technologies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Scribble-scrabble genius : Coleridge, transcription, and the shorthand effect -- Wordsworth and bureaucratic form -- Shelley amid the age of separations; or, a poetry of ambiversion for networked life -- Keats's ways : the dark passages of mediation and giving up hyperion |
| Summary |
The Romantic poet's intense yearning to share thoughts and feelings often finds expression in a style that thwarts a connection with readers. Yohei Igarashi addresses this paradox by reimagining Romantic poetry as a response to the beginnings of the information age. Data collection, rampant connectivity, and efficient communication became powerful social norms during this period. The Connected Condition argues that poets responded to these developments by probing the underlying fantasy: the perfect transfer of thoughts, feelings, and information, along with media that might make such communication possible. This book radically reframes major poets and canonical poems. Igarashi considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a stenographer, William Wordsworth as a bureaucrat, Percy Shelley amid social networks, and John Keats in relation to telegraphy, revealing a shared attraction and skepticism toward the dream of communication. Bringing to bear a singular combination of media studies, the history of communication, sociology, rhetoric, and literary history, The Connected Condition proposes new accounts of literary difficulty and Romanticism. Above all, this book shows that the Romantic poets have much to teach us about living with the connected condition and the fortunes of literature in it |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Communication -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Communication. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Romanticism -- England.
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Romanticism. |
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1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Igarashi, Yohei, 1979- Connected condition. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019] 9781503610040 (DLC) 2019005195 (OCoLC)1084559369 |
| ISBN |
9781503610736 electronic book |
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150361073X electronic book |
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9781503610040 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1503610047 hardcover alkaline paper |
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