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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456849703321

Autore

Martens Britta <1973->

Titolo

Browning, Victorian poetics and the romantic legacy [[electronic resource] ] : challenging the personal voice / / Britta Martens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, 2011

ISBN

1-317-17119-5

1-317-17118-7

1-283-15820-5

9786613158208

1-4094-2304-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

821/.8

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Youthful romanticism reviewed -- Beyond the romantic long poem : Sordello -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : model and countermodel -- Reclaiming visionary lyricism -- The poet under pressure : the ring and the book -- Victorian taste and romantic imitators.

Sommario/riassunto

Taking an original approach to Robert Browning's poetics, Martens analyses his work in relation to Romanticism and an evolving Victorian poetic culture. She goes beyond reductive interpretations of Browning as a self-effacing poet to reveal a highly self-conscious, self-dramatising and conflicted engagement with the Romantic tradition. Martens' Browning is a poet of complex contradictions and an illuminating case study in voice, authorial authority and self-reference.