Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)-[1]-[Noel Jackson].pdf

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SCIENCE AND SENSATION IN
ROMANTIC POETRY
Romantic poets, notably Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, and Keats,
were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience
operate, and in the connections between sense-perception and aes-
thetic experience. Noel Jackson tracks this upation through
the Romantic period and beyond, both in relation to late eighteenth-
century human sciences, and in the context of momentous social
transformations in the period of the French Revolution. Combining
close readings of the poems with interdisciplinary research into the
history of the human sciences, Noel Jackson sheds new light on
Romantic efforts to define how art is experienced in relation to the
newly emerging sciences of the mind and shows the continued
relevance of these ideas to our own habits of cultural and historical
criticism today. This book will be of interest not only to scholars
of Romanticism, but also to those interested in the intellectual
interrelations between literature and science.
noel jackson is Associate Professor in the Literature Section of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
cambridge studies in romanticism
Founding editor
Professor Marilyn Butler, University of Oxford
General editor
Professor James Chandler, University of Chicago
Editorial Board
John Barrell, University of York
Paul Hamilton, University of London
Mary Jacobus, University of Cambridge
Claudia Johnson, Princeton University
Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
Susan Manning, University of Edinburgh
David Simpson, University of California, Davis
This series aims to foster the best new work in one of the most challenging
fields within English literary studies. From the early 1780s to the early 1830s a
formidable array of talented men and women took to position, not
just in poetry, which some of them famously transformed, but in many modes of
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