Heart Beats by Catherine Robson
Examines how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. This title explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived.
Winner of the 2013 NAVSA Best Book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association "It's tempting to sentimentalize an era in which poetry--memorized, recited poetry--held so prominent a place in the cultureBut its once-substantial role turns out to be a mixed and complicated tale, as thoroughly chronicled [by] Catherine Robson."--Brad Leithauser, NewYorker.com "Catherine Robson's extraordinary book, a feat of imagining as well as of scholarship, explores the memorization and reciting of poems in classrooms across England and America through substantial portions of the last two centuries."--William H. Pritchard, Weekly Standard "I hope that books like Catherine Robson's brilliant Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem will mark a turning point in the history of our discipline. Written with a lightness of touch but a depth of commitment ... lively, fresh and insightful ... thoughtful and meticulous."--Chris Jones, Times Higher Education "Robson develops her arguments with a delicious range of references."--Julie Blake, English in Education "Robson does far more than give us the institutional history of verse memorization, though she does this fascinatingly well. She interrogates what performed memorization means for the study of poetry, reception, and canonization."--James Najarian, European Romantic Review "Heart Beats invites further research, and should have a significant impact on Victorian studies for some time to come."--Kirstie Blair, Tennyson Research Bulletin "[A]bsorbing, amazingly-detailed, and at times startling."--Mike Chasar, Poetry
Catherine Robson is is professor of English at New York University. She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman (Princeton).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691119366 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691119368 |
| Title | Heart Beats |
| Author | Catherine Robson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2012-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Prizes | Winner of North American Victorian Studies Association Best Book of the Year 2012 |
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