Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth's Poetry in Fields of Print

by Julia S. Carlson

In the late eighteenth century, British print culture took a diagrammatic and accentual turn. In graphs of emphasis and tonal inflection, in signs for indicating poetic stress, and in tabulations of punctuation, elocutionists, grammarians, and prosodists deployed new typographic marks and measures to represent English speech on the page. At the same time, cartographers and travel writers published reconfigurations of landscape on large-scale topographical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247876
• ISBN13: 9780812247879
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"