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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jason David HallPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783319851686ISBN 10: 3319851683 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 10 August 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Machines of Meter.- 1. Measurement, Temporality, Abstraction.- 2. Meter Manufactories.- 3. Automaton Versifiers.- 4. The Automatic Flow of Verse.- 5. Instrumental Prosody.- Select Bibliography.- Index.ReviewsHall's book is well-documented and deserves consideration proportionate to its theoretical undertaking. It also provides compelling socio-historical evidence of the relation between prosodic education and mechanized serial production in the nineteenth century. (John C. Murray, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, May, 2018) Author InformationJason David Hall is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. His books include Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator (2007), Seamus Heaney’s Rhythmic Contract (2009), Meter Matters: Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century (2011), and Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle (2013). His edition of Wilkie Collins’s Jezebel’s Daughter was published in 2016. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |