Romantic Dynamics creatively collides English poetry with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the 'new physics' of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity, and complexity in a chaotic universe. This interdisciplinary work traces the elaboration of dynamical models of cosmos and consciousness in works by Blake, Byron, Coleridge, the Shelleys and Wordsworth, finding in those works an exploration of the interpenetration of psyche and phenomena. This model, the author argues, establishes a new metaphoric terrain liberated from the classical mechanics of Newtonian thought and more easily traversed with models articulated by Bohr, Einstein and Hawking.

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This is a very fine book, indeed, which makes a real contribution to our understanding of Romanticism, science, and ecological thought. Romantic Circles Review

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Arizona State University, USA

Mark S. Lussier

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Mark S. Lussier is Associate Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Arizona State University.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Romantic Dynamics
Book Subtitle: The Poetics of Physicality
Authors: Mark S. Lussier
Series Title: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597501
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22671-8Published: 13 January 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59750-1Published: 11 October 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 220
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Intellectual Studies

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

Front Matter

Preludium: On Synchronicity