Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry: List of illustrations
Introduction: lyrical forms and empirical realities: reading Romanticism's 'language of the sense' Part I. Senses of History: Between the Mind and the World: 1. Powers of suggestion: sensation, revolution, and Romantic aesthetics 2. The 'sense of history' and the history of the senses: periodizing perception in Wordsworth and Blake Part II. Senses of Community: Lyric Subjectivity and 'The Culture of the Feelings' 3. Critical conditions: Coleridge, 'common sense', and the literature of self-experiment 4. Sense and consensus: Wordsworth, aesthetic culture, and the poet-physician Part III. The Persistence of the Aesthetic: Afterlives of Romanticism: 5. John Keats and the sense of the future 6. More than a feeling? Walter Pater, Wilkie Collins, and the legacies of Wordsworthian aesthetics Select bibliography.