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Romantic Silence: Voice and Identity in British Poetry, 1789-1850

In close readings of various modes of silence in Romantic poetry, my project examines the role and function of silence in establishing and re-constructing a sense of identity, voice, and representation that is at one with the Romantic philosophical concern for individual consciousness, subjectivity, and expressiveness. By positing a critical connection between eighteenth-century social and scientific phenomenon and philosophy and the use of silence in Romantic poetry, my project situates the relationship of silence and Romantic self-consciousness in historical and inter-disciplinary contexts to understand Romanticism through the discourse and rhetoric of silence. Using eighteenth- to nineteenth- century humanistic and scientific sources, my research adopts an interdisciplinary, inclusive, and progressive approach by identifying silence as a socio-political, scientific, and cultural phenomenon in poetry of the Romantic period.
Date:1 Oct 2020 →  30 Sep 2021
Keywords:British Romanticism, Silence, Poetry, Voice, Identity
Disciplines:Literatures in English, Modern literature, Literary criticism, Philosophy of language, Philosophical aesthetics, Musicology and ethnomusicology, Corpus linguistics, Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified