{"product_id":"on-form-poetry-aestheticism-and-the-legacy-of-a-word-paperback-1","title":"On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAngela Leighton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets, and offers close readings of, among others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to show how form has provided the single most important way of accounting for the movements of literary language itself. She investigates, for instance, the old debate of form and content, of form as music or sound-shape, as the ghostly dynamic and dynamics of a text, as well as its long association with the aestheticist principle of being 'for nothing'. In a wide-ranging and inventive argument, she suggests that form is the key to the\u003cbr\u003epleasure of the literary text, and that that pleasure is part of what literary criticism itself needs to answer and convey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAngela Leighton\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of a number of books, including \u003cem\u003eShelley and the Sublime\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVictorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as many essays on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42039727685712,"sku":"9780199551934","price":94.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/d0FFZmorM3VtbFJQOVRLdm54S2lBQT09_69aba4c8-bc8b-4ff9-835f-fcd7e927f04a.webp?v=1771841724","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/on-form-poetry-aestheticism-and-the-legacy-of-a-word-paperback-1","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}