Watchwords: Romanticism and the Poetics of Attention

Author/Contributor(s):	Gurton-Wachter, Lily
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	03/23/2016
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This book introduces new research about the history of attention-in politics, medicine, science, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and the rhetoric of war-to reframe British Romantic poetry as proposing and eliciting alternative modes of watchfulness, attention, and neglect.