LEADER 03512nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910959319403321 005 20251117095753.0 010 $a9780300155587 010 $a0300155581 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300155587 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105024 035 $a(EBL)3420976 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000721106 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11421698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721106 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10688047 035 $a(PQKB)11067250 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165583 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420976 035 $a(DE-B1597)485313 035 $a(OCoLC)808346522 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300155587 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420976 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579375 035 $a(Perlego)1161384 035 $z(OCoLC)808346522 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105024 100 $a20081023d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLife $eorganic form and Romanticism /$fDenise Gigante 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (333 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780300136852 311 08$a0300136854 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-286) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Smart's powers: Jubilate agno -- Blake's living form: Jerusalem -- Shelley's vitalist "witch" -- Keats's principle of monstrosity: Lamia. 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aEnglish poetry$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish poetry$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLife in literature 606 $aLife sciences in literature 606 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLife in literature. 615 0$aLife sciences in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aRomanticism 676 $a821/.709 700 $aGigante$b Denise$f1965-$01803830 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959319403321 996 $aLife$94366515 997 $aUNINA