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Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century identifies a pervasive cultivation of attention in eighteenth-century poetry. The book argues that a plea from a 1692 ode by William Congreve-'Let me be all, but my attention, dead'-embodies a wider aspiration in the period's poetry to explore overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention. It historicizes eighteenth-century accounts of attention and pioneers a link between the period's poetry and recent discussions of attention in cognitive psychology. It contributes to the largely neglected history of a psychological trait that has assumed a recent cultural urgency, and it repositions eighteenth-century poems as a collective model for assiduous reading and supple, wide-ranging attention.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century
• Author: Margaret Koehler
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 263
• EAN: 9781137031129
• ISBN: 1137031123
• ID: 01212818
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 145 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. November 2012

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