Fossil poetry : Anglo-Saxon and linguistic nativism in nineteenth-century poetry / Chris Jones.
2018
PR585
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Title
Fossil poetry : Anglo-Saxon and linguistic nativism in nineteenth-century poetry / Chris Jones.
Author
Jones, Chris, 1971- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191865886 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
PR585
Dewey Decimal Classification
821.809
Summary
'Fossil Poetry' provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in 19th-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry. 'Fossil Poetry' takes its title from a famous passage on 'early' language in the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and uses the metaphor of the fossil to contextualize poetic Anglo-Saxonism within the developments that had been taking place in the fields of geology, palaeontology, and the evolutionary life sciences since James Hutton's apprehension of 'deep time' in his 1788 'Theory of the Earth.'
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'Fossil Poetry' provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in 19th-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry. 'Fossil Poetry' takes its title from a famous passage on 'early' language in the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and uses the metaphor of the fossil to contextualize poetic Anglo-Saxonism within the developments that had been taking place in the fields of geology, palaeontology, and the evolutionary life sciences since James Hutton's apprehension of 'deep time' in his 1788 'Theory of the Earth.'
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2018).
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Print version: 9780198824527
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