{"product_id":"9781009710213","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present by Christian R. Gelder","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 31\/03\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom large-scale quantitative studies in the digital humanities to AI-generated poetry, scientific reading seemingly reigns supreme. However, these reading practices preceded, and often shaped, modern literary criticism and the rise of close reading. The Search for a Science of Verse restores this history, tracing the unruly and deeply political attempts to fashion a scientific account of poetry from 1880 onwards. It also investigates a set of modern poets, from Laura Riding to Veronica Forrest-Thomson, who thought about how their verse offers a form of knowledge not reducible to scientific explanation. It gives an account of the singularity of poetic thinking in their work, which actualises instances of meaning-making that prioritise the singular over the rule-governed. The Search for a Science of Verse is thus a historical inquiry into how techno-scientific reason sought to exert its full domination over the poetic imagination-and how that imagination, in turn, responded. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368294199669,"sku":"9781009710213","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781009710213.jpg?v=1763549049","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781009710213","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}