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1 online resource (xvii, 195 pages) |
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Texts and Contexts |
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Texts and contexts.
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Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series editors' preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART ONE Contexts; 1 Social and cultural contexts; The varieties of Victorian poetry; Reform and protest; Men and women; Gendering the poet; The Victorian woman poet; The fallen woman; Doubt; Faith; Empire; 2 Literary contexts; The post-Romantics; Early-to-mid-Victorian poetics; Tennyson's Palaces of Art; Arnold: Poetry and action; The dramatic monologue; Poetry, the novel and marginality; Poetry and the book arts; Later Victorian poetics; PART TWO Texts |
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Introduction: Reading Victorian poetryVictorian metres and rhythms; 3 Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (1850); 'What Hope is Here for Modern Rhyme?' (LXXVII. 1): In Memoriam and form; In Memoriam as elegy; Honest doubt; 'Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw' (LVI. 15); 'My Lost Desire' (CXXIX. I); Miss Alfred Tennyson; 4 Robert Browning's monologues; Browning and the dramatic monologue; 'Porphyria's Lover'; 'My Last Duchess'; Browning's Italy: Art and historicism; 'Fra Lippo Lippi'; 'Andrea del Sarto'; Browning's dangerous edge; 5 Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh; The first woman poet |
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The development of Elizabeth Barrett BrowningElizabeth, Robert and Italy; Aurora Leigh: Introduction; Aurora Leigh: Books I to III; Aurora Leigh: Books IV and V; Aurora Leigh: Books VI to IX; 6 Christina Rossetti, 'Goblin Market'; Christina Rossetti: Furniture wrecker; Giving and withholding: 'Winter: My Secret'; Critical approaches to 'Goblin Market'; Visualizing 'Goblin Market'; Rossetti's irresistible metres; 7 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 'Jenny' and Augusta Webster, 'A Castaway'; 'Jenny': The one most wanted; Jenny's silence; The prostitute and art: 'Jenny' and Found |
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Augusta Webster: Dramatic monologist'A Castaway': 'The Silly Rules This Silly World / Makes About Women!'; 8 Fin de siècle poetries; Amy Levy; 'Xantippe' and 'A Minor Poet'; Levy's lyrics: 'Ballade of an Omnibus' and 'Ballade of a Special Edition'; Arthur Symons; London Nights (1895); Music-hall modernity: 'Prologue', 'Nora on the Pavement', 'La Mélinite: Moulin Rouge'; PART THREE Wider contexts; 9 Critical contexts; Victorian poetry criticism 1950s-80s; Expanding the canon: Diversified voices; Politics versus aesthetics; Fin-de-siècle poetry criticism; Victorian poetry criticism now |
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10 Afterlives and adaptationsGerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian modernist; Thomas Hardy: Modern Victorian; Modernist reactions; The continuing popularity of Victorian poets and poems; Laureate legacies: Tennyson, elegy and queer memory; The still-withdrawing roar of 'Dover Beach'; 'The Lady of Shalott' lives on; 'The Lady of Shalott': The visual legacy; 'Goblin Market' and the after-gaze; Elizabeth and Robert; 'A Bag of Crisps Beneath the Bough': The best of the rest; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Victorian Poetry in Context offers a lively and accessible introduction to the diverse range of poetry written in the Victorian period. Considering such issues as reform and protest, gender, science and belief this book sets out the social and cultural contexts for the poetry of a fast-changing era. Sections on Victorian poetics, form and Victorian voices introduce the key literary contexts of poetry's production, and poetic innovations of the period such as the dramatic monologue are highlighted . At the heart of the book is a focus on the importance of attentive close reading, with original |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literary studies: poetry & poets.
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Literary studies: general.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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English poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441182463 |
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1441182462 |
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