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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453526003321

Titolo

Victorian poets : a critical reader / / edited by Valentine Cunningham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-631-19913-6

1-118-61079-2

1-118-61078-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (527 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Critical Reader ; ; 10

Altri autori (Persone)

CunninghamValentine

Disciplina

821/.809

Soggetti

English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Echo and the Mirror en abîme in Victorian Poetry; Notes; 2 The Mirror's Secret; Notes; 3 Browning's Anxious Gaze; Notes; 4 The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning's Dramatic Monologues; 1; 2; Notes; 5 Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric; I; II; III; IV; Notes; 6 Matthew Arnold's Gipsies; The New Historicism; Intertextual Matters; Victorian Gipsies and "The Scholar-Gipsy"; The Acquisition of Cultural Power; Notes; 7 A New Radical Aesthetic; Notes; 8 Alienated Majesty; Notes

9 Fact and TactNotes; 10 'A Thousand Times I'd be a Factory Girl'; I; II; III; IV; Notes; Works Cited; 11 'The fruitful feud of hers and his'; 1 Questioning the Subject: Dramatic Monologue; 2 Androgyny; 3 The Disappearance of the Object; 4 Matthew Arnold; Notes; 12 'Eat me, drink me, love me'; Sisterhoods and the Female Gaze; Goblin Market and Feminine Guessiness; Notes; 13 Browning's Corpses; Notes; 14 A E Housman and 'the colour of his hair'; Notes; 15 Tennyson's 'Little Hamlet'; Notes; Works Cited; 16 The Disappointment of Christina G Rossetti; Notes; 17 Stirring 'a Dust of Figures'; Notes

Bibliography 18 'Love, let us be true to one another'; I; II; III; IV; V; Notes; 19 'Poets and lovers evermore'; What's in a Name?; 'The Fearful



Mastery of Love'; Fleshly Love and 'A Curve That Is Drawn So Fine'; Notes; 20 Swinburne at Work; Anactoria; Notes; 21 Naming and Not Naming; I. Becoming A Name; II. Not Naming, But Suggesting; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830's to the 1890's.  Presents key criticism on Victorian poetry  Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field  Illustrates the full range of critical approaches to the Victorian poets, including attention to texts, words, forms, modes, and sub-genres  Offers fresh reinterpretations, many driven by contemporary ideological interests, including gender questions, selfhood, and body issues  "--