By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.

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Margaret Koehler is an associate professor of English at Otterbein University.

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Book Title: Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century
Authors: Margaret Koehler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313607
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-03112-9Published: 16 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44072-6Published: 16 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31360-7Published: 17 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 263
Topics: Literary History, Cognitive Psychology, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Eighteenth-Century Literature

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