Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History

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Cambridge University Press, Jul 29, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 225 pages
Goodman traces connections between Georgic verse and developments in other spheres from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

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Contents

Georgic modernity sensory media and the affect of history
1
The Georgics and the cultivation of mediums 16601712 sensible paths and pleasurable Byways
17
magnifying small things after the restoration
22
the polite pleasures of information
29
beyond the principle of pleasure
35
The microscopic eye and the noise of history in Thomsons The Seasons
38
trouble in the presence room of the mind
42
reprise
54
waiting for strangers
88
Cowper and Walter Benjamin
98
between acedia and aisthesis
101
Passages of Life aural histories in The Excursion
106
The husbandry of the past and the passions in the Georgics
112
the open heart
115
anecdotal historiography and the acoustical unconscious
127
floral histories and registers of muteness
140

The Seasons
56
Cowpers georgic of the news the loophole in the retreat
67
The news and the not yet history
72
articulating the news
78
Notes
144
Works cited
199
Index
218
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Kevis Goodman is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published articles in Studies in Romanticism, ELH and South Atlantic Quarterly.

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