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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cunningham, Valentine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Heirs to the idealized world of the Romantics, darker themes emerged in the era of the Victorians. Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of thought-provoking critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Featuring contributions from a variety of distinguished scholars, the essays illustrate the wide range of innovative critical approaches to this extraordinary body of poetry and poetics, including attention to texts, words, forms, modes, and sub-genres. A variety of reinterpretations and critical reassessments is presented, driven by contemporary ideological interests, including questions of gender, selfhood, and body issues. The essays also reveal theoretical approaches informed by structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Echo and the Mirror en abîme in Victorian Poetry / Gerhard Joseph Joseph, Gerhard 15

2 The Mirror's Secret: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Double Work of Art / J Hillis Miller Miller, J Hillis 27

3 Browning's Anxious Gaze / Ann Wordsworth Wordsworth, Ann 46

4 The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning's Dramatic Monologues / Jennifer A Wagner-Lawlor Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A 56

5 Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric / Herbert F Tucker Tucker, Herbert F 75

6 Matthew Arnold's Gipsies: Intertextuality and the New Historicism / Antony Harrison Harrison, Antony 95

7 A New Radical Aesthetic: The Grotesque as Cultural Critique: Morris / Isobel Armstrong Armstrong, Isobel 118

8 Alienated Majesty: Gerard M Hopkins / Geoffrey Hill Hill, Geoffrey 143

9 Fact and Tact: Arnoldian Fact-finding and Q Tactlessness in the Reading of Gerard Hopkins / Valentine Cunningham Cunningham, Valentine 160

10 'A Thousand Times I'd be a Factory Girl': Dialect, Domesticity, and Working-Class Women's Poetry in Victorian Britain / Susan Zlotnick Zlotnick, Susan 174

11 'The fruitful feud of hers and his': Sameness, Difference, and Gender in Victorian Poetry / Dorothy Mermin Mermin, Dorothy 199

12 'Eat me, drink me, love me': The Consumable Female Body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market / Mary Wilson Carpenter Carpenter, Mary Wilson 221

13 Browning's Corpses / Carol T Christ Christ, Carol T 243

14 A E Housman and 'the colour of his hair' / Christopher Ricks Ricks, Christopher 255

15 Tennyson's 'Little Hamlet' / David G Riede Riede, David G 268

16 The Disappointment of Christina G Rossetti / Eric Griffiths Griffiths, Eric 286

17 Stirring 'a Dust of Figures': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Love / Angela Leighton Leighton, Angela 316

18 'Love, let us be true to one another': Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough and 'our Aqueous Ages' / Joseph Bristow Bristow, Joseph 333

19 'Poets and lovers evermore': The Poetry and Journals of Michael Field / Chris White White, Chris 358

20 Swinburne at Work: The First Page of 'Anactoria' / Timothy A J Burnett Burnett, Timothy A J 380

21 Naming and Not Naming: Tennyson and Mallarmé / Mary Ann Caws Caws, Mary Ann, Gerhard Joseph Joseph, Gerhard 390.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Victorian poets : a critical reader.

ISBN:

9781118610787

OCLC:

868280769

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Restricted for use by site license.