Yohei Igarashi

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The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of CommunicationHardcover, 10 December 2019

The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication
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Stanford Text Technologies
Print Length
256 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Date Published
10 Dec 2019
ISBN-10
1503610047
ISBN-13
9781503610040

Description

The Romantic poet's intense yearning to share thoughts and feelings often finds expression in a style that thwarts a connection with readers. Yohei Igarashi addresses this paradox by reimagining Romantic poetry as a response to the beginnings of the information age. Data collection, rampant connectivity, and efficient communication became powerful social norms during this period. The Connected Condition argues that poets responded to these developments by probing the underlying fantasy: the perfect transfer of thoughts, feelings, and information, along with media that might make such communication possible.

This book radically reframes major poets and canonical poems. Igarashi considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a stenographer, William Wordsworth as a bureaucrat, Percy Shelley amid social networks, and John Keats in relation to telegraphy, revealing a shared attraction and skepticism toward the dream of communication. Bringing to bear a singular combination of media studies, the history of communication, sociology, rhetoric, and literary history, The Connected Condition proposes new accounts of literary difficulty and Romanticism. Above all, this book shows that the Romantic poets have much to teach us about living with the connected condition and the fortunes of literature in it.

Product Details

Author:
Yohei Igarashi
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
10 December 2019
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
1503610047
ISBN-13:
9781503610040
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Weight:
544.31 gm

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