Fantastic Shapes: Topology and Textuality in Romantic Poetry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

An exciting topological foray into Romantic textuality, Fantastic Shapes shows how poetic form participates in a broader reimagining of space and spatial relations at the turn of the nineteenth century. It reveals how the textual surface, far from being a passive carrier wave of content, emerges as an active, shaping force: a dynamic, self-reflexive site of meaning-making. Focusing on four poets – John Keats, Charlotte Smith, Percy Shelley and Felicia Hemans – the book engages with developments in non-Euclidean geometry to argue that far-reaching reconceptualizations of space not only form the backdrop to Romanticism’s challenge to classical order, but come to constitute that very challenge. This book’s wider aim is to offer fresh perspectives on key Romantic signatures: irony, fragmentation, non-orientability, recursion, and spatial paradox. These formal tendencies, Richard Marggraf-Turley argues, are not merely aesthetic or rhetorical effects but expressions of a deeper epistemic rupture – one that unfolds against a mathematical revolution that was testing, and ultimately disrupting, the constraints of Euclidean spatial logic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-02-03
Mått:163 x 239 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781805965848

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Richard Marggraf-Turley is Professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of several books exploring themes from Medieval to Romantic literature and culture, and has also published a novel as well as a number of poetry collections.

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'Fantastic Shapes is an exceptionally interesting book: brilliant, dense, and startlingly original. The author proposes a wholly new understanding of poetic form, one that could only have been devised by someone who, like the author, is both a distinguished poet and a dazzlingly inventive interdisciplinary thinker.' Margaret Russett, Professor of English, University of Southern California

Innehållsförteckning

Introductoryi. Hyperbolicii. Let X(anadu) be a spaceiii. At the top|ologyiv. In sumLocal Behavioursi. Strips and bottlesii. Zones and chequerworkiii. Boke, ditty, sangiv. The same but differentv. That kind of textualityvi. Topology and topographyvii. Concludingviii. Coda: CylindricalLimit Pointsi. Categories of spaceii. Here and thereiii. Transhorizonaliv. Endnotesv. These mournful linesLava Urns and Connected Sumsi. Textualii. Curvature, excessiii. Lava urns, connected sumsiv. Impress’dSpeech Marksi. Shelley spaceii. Metasourcesiii. To whom thou say’stCoda: Vanishing Pointsi. Refractionsii. Projectionsiii. Reflectionsiv. Impressionsv. Horizons