03414nam 2200709 a 450 991081934730332120240418005620.00-300-15558-110.12987/9780300155587(CKB)2550000000105024(EBL)3420976(SSID)ssj0000721106(PQKBManifestationID)11421698(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721106(PQKBWorkID)10688047(PQKB)11067250(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165583(MiAaPQ)EBC3420976(DE-B1597)485313(OCoLC)808346522(DE-B1597)9780300155587(Au-PeEL)EBL3420976(CaPaEBR)ebr10579375(EXLCZ)99255000000010502420081023d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLife[electronic resource] organic form and Romanticism /Denise Gigante1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20091 online resource (333 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-300-13685-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-286) and index.Introduction -- Smart's powers: Jubilate agno -- Blake's living form: Jerusalem -- Shelley's vitalist "witch" -- Keats's principle of monstrosity: Lamia.What makes something alive? Or, more to the point, what is life? The question is as old as the ages and has not been (and may never be) resolved. Life springs from life, and liveliness motivates matter to act the way it does. Yet vitality in its very unpredictability often appears as a threat. In this intellectually stimulating work, Denise Gigante looks at how major writers of the Romantic period strove to produce living forms of art on an analogy with biological form, often finding themselves face to face with a power known as monstrous. The poets Christopher Smart, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats were all immersed in a culture obsessed with scientific ideas about vital power and its generation, and they broke with poetic convention in imagining new forms of "life." In Life: Organic Form and Romanticism, Gigante offers a way to read ostensibly difficult poetry and reflects on the natural-philosophical idea of organic form and the discipline of literary studies.English poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismLife in literatureLife sciences in literatureLiterature and scienceGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature and scienceGreat BritainHistory18th centuryRomanticismGreat BritainEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.English poetryHistory and criticism.Life in literature.Life sciences in literature.Literature and scienceHistoryLiterature and scienceHistoryRomanticism821/.709Gigante Denise1965-1636405MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819347303321Life4024182UNINA