Watchwords: Romanticism and the Poetics of Attention

By Lily Gurton-Wachter

This book introduces new research about the history of attention-in politics, medicine, science, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and the rhetoric of war-to reframe British Romantic poetry as proposing and eliciting alternative modes of watchfulness, attention, and neglect.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804796955
• ISBN13: 9780804796958
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"