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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 June 2018
      05 July 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108569316
      9781108424950
      9781108441032
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569316
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (121)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (121)
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    Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word 'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Gradually 'air' and 'atmosphere' took on the new status of metaphor as Wordsworth and other poets re-imagined poetry as a textual area of aerial communication - conveying the breath of a transitory moment to other times and places via the printed page. Reading Romantic poetry through this ecological and ecocritical lens Ford goes on to ask what the poems of the Romantic period mean for us in a new age of climate change, when the relationship between physical climates and cultural, political and literary atmospheres is once again being transformed.

    Reviews

    '… richly theorized and discursively broad-ranging … Ford convincingly argues that we in the Anthropocene, confronted by a new literalization of cultural atmosphere as climate, have much to learn from this Romantic discourse on atmosphere.'

    Scott Hess Source: Review 19

    ‘… Ford offers intriguing readings of a suite of natural history and medico-material texts both central and somewhat peripheral to standard Romantic criticism, including Herder, Goethe, Keats, Howard, Priestley, and Faraday.’

    Michelle Levy Source: The Wordsworth Circle

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