Futures of Enlightenment Poetry by Stewart, Dustin D.
Futures of Enlightenment Poetry by Stewart, Dustin D.

Futures of Enlightenment Poetry

This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made...
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Author: Dustin D. Stewart
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Futures of Enlightenment Poetry by Stewart, Dustin D.

Futures of Enlightenment Poetry

$383.16
Futures of Enlightenment Poetry by Stewart, Dustin D.

Futures of Enlightenment Poetry

$383.16
Author: Dustin D. Stewart
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm. Protestant religious writing was of two minds about futurity, swinging back and forth between patience for the resurrected body and desire for the released soul. This ancient pattern carried over, the book argues, into understandings of poetry as a modern devotional practice.

A range of authors agreed that poems can provide a foretaste of the afterlife, but they disagreed about what kind of future state the imagination should seek. The mortalist impulse--exemplified by John Milton and by Romantic poets Anna Letitia Barbauld and William Wordsworth--is to overcome the temptation of disembodiment and to restore spirit to its rightful home in matter. The spiritualist impulse--driving eighteenth-century verse by Mark Akenside, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Edward Young--is to break out of bodily repetition and enjoy the detached soul's freedom in advance. Although the study isolates these two tendencies, each needed the other as a source in the Enlightenment, and their productive opposition didn't end with Romanticism. The final chapter identifies an alternative Romantic vision that keeps open the possibility of a disembodied poetics, and the introduction considers present-day Anglophone writers who put it into practice.


Author: Dustin D. Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/29/2020
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780198857792

About the Author
Dustin D. Stewart, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Dustin D. Stewart is an Assistant Professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin and held academic posts in Atlanta and Colorado Springs before moving to New York City. Futures of Enlightenment Poetry is his first book.
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