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Chris Jones

Fossil Poetry

Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

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Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-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, anduses 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 si… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-255795-7
  • EAN: 9780192557957
  • Produktnummer: 29429712
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'617 KB

Über den Autor


Chris Jones teaches at the University of St Andrews. His previous book Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-century Poetry (OUP, 2006) was shortlisted for the ESSE best book prize of 2007.

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