LEADER 05797oam 2200913I 450 001 9910552988903321 005 20170919165320.0 010 $a1-315-64026-0 010 $a1-317-27649-3 010 $a1-317-27648-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315640266 035 $a(CKB)3710000000654889 035 $a(EBL)4516491 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001663654 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16448801 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001663654 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14974575 035 $a(PQKB)10530093 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4516491 035 $a(OCoLC)948511736 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/79356 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000654889 100 $a20180706d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe idea of infancy in nineteenth-century British poetry $eromanticism, subjectivity, form /$fedited by D. B. Ruderman 210 $cTaylor & Francis$d2016 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Studies in Romanticism ;$v22 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-19185-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Infant Bud of Being""; 1 ""Blank Misgivings"": Infancy in Wordsworth's Ode; 2 ""When I First Saw the Child"": Reverie in Erasmus Darwin and Coleridge; 3 Merging and Emerging in the Work of Sara Coleridge; 4 Bodies in Dissolve: Animal Magnetism and Infancy in Shelley; 5 Stillborn Poetics and Tennyson's Songs; Afterword: ""An Echo to the Self"": Augusta Webster's Psychoanalytic Thought; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. While recent historicist studies have documented the "freshness of experience" childhood confers on 19th-century poetry and culture, this book draws on new formalist and psychoanalytic perspectives to rethink familiar concepts such as immortality, the sublime, and the death drive as well as forms and genres such as the pastoral, the ode, and the ballad. Ruderman establishes that infancy emerges as a unique structure of feeling simultaneously with new theories of lyric poetry at the end of the eighteenth century. He then explores the intertwining of poetic experimentation and infancy in Wordsworth, Anna Barbauld, Blake, Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Sara Coleridge, Shelley, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson, and Augusta Webster. Each chapter addresses andanalyzes a specific moment in a writers? work, moments of tenderness or mourning, birth or death, physical or mental illness, when infancy is analogized, eulogized, or theorized. Moving between canonical and archival materials, and combining textual and inter-textual reading, metrical and prosodic analysis, and post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the book shows how poetic engagements with infancy anticipate psychoanalytic and phenomenological (i.e. modern) ways of being in the world. Ultimately, Rudermansuggests that it is not so much that we return to infancy as that infancy returns (obsessively, compulsively) in us. This book shows how by tracking changing attitudes towards the idea of infancy, one might also map the emotional, political, and aesthetic terrain of nineteenth-century culture. It will be of interest to scholars in the areas of British romanticism and Victorianism, as well as 19th-century American literature and culture, histories of childhood, and representations of the child from art historical, cultural studies, and literary perspectives. "D. B. Ruderman?s The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form is an interesting contribution to this field, and it manages to bring a new perspective to our understanding of Romantic-era and Victorian representations of infancy and childhood. ?a supremely exciting book that will be a key work for generations of readers of nineteenth-century poetry." 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