Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories: The Poetics of Physicality

Lussier, M.

Romantic Dynamics creatively collides English poetry with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the 'new physics' of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity, and complexity in a chaotic universe. This interdisciplinary work traces the elaboration of dynamical models of cosmos and consciousness in works by Blake, Byron, Coleridge, the Shelleys and Wordsworth, finding in those works an exploration of the interpenetration of psyche and phenomena. This model, the author argues, establishes a new metaphoric terrain liberated from the classical mechanics of Newtonian thought and more easily traversed with models articulated by Bohr, Einstein and Hawking.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-01-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312226718

DOI: 10.1057/9780230597501

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 220