Growing Old Together
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amanda Jo Goldstein (0000-0002-5663-9976, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-92 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2014.128.1.60 |
| OpenAlex | W2263431841 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay explores Percy Shelley's The Triumph of Life as a strategic revival of Lucretian poetic science: a materialism fit to connect the epochal, romantic interest in biological life to the period's pressing new sense of its own historicity. Shelley mobilizes Lucretian natural simulacra to show how personal bodies produce and integrate passages of historical time, exercising a poetics of transience that resists the triumphalism characteristic of both historiography and vitalist biology in the post-Waterloo period. Representing aging faces as mutable registers of the "living storm" of a post-Napoleonic interval, The Triumph depicts the face-giving trope of prosopopoeia as the unintended work of multitudes-demonstrating a nineteenth-century possibility of thinking biological, historical, and rhetorical materialisms together
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Historiography · Literature · Materialism · Poetics · Poetry · Politics · Rhetorical question · Romanticism · Vitalism · History · Law · Philosophy · Science Education and Perceptions
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2017 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |