The lyric poem and aestheticism : forms of modernity / Marion Thain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thain, Marion, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

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

Lyric poetry.

Aesthetics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity.<p>This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it. Setting the focal aestheticist poetry (c. 1860 to 1914) within much broader historical, theoretical and aesthetic frames, it speaks to those interested in Victorian and modernist literature and culture, but also to a burgeoning audience of the 'new lyric studies'. The six case studies introduce fresh poetic voices as well as giving innovative analyses of canonical writers (such as D. G. Rossetti, Ezra Pound, A. C. Swinburne).</p>Key Features<ul><li>Challenges and transforms existing narratives of the modern formation of the 'lyric' genre through engagement with a body of work that larger-scale genre histories elide</li><li>Offers innovative analysis of aestheticist poetry from the 1860s to the early years of the twentieth century</li><li>Provides three fresh theoretical frames to examine the relationship between poetry and modernity</li><li>Includes case studies featuring a range of literary figures such as D. G. Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Michael Field, Arthur Symons, A. C. Swinburne and Ezra Pound</li></ul>

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Lyric, Aestheticism and the Later Nineteenth Century

Part I: Time

2. Metre and Temporality: Between Hegel and Benjamin

3. Painting, Music, Touch: D. G. Rossetti’s Ekphrasis and Competing Temporalities

4. Parnassus and Commodity Time

Part II: Space

5. Form and Transaction: Lyric Touch

6. Arthur Symons and Decadent Lyric Phenomenology

7. ‘Space, the Bound of a Solid’: Alice Meynell and Thomas Hardy

Part III: Subjectivity

8. Desire Lines: Subjectivity and Collectivity

9. A. C. Swinburne in the Round: Drama, Personae and Lyric Subjectivity

10. Ezra Pound’s Troubadour Subject: Community, Form and ‘Lyric’ in Early Modernism

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Jun 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-1568-7

1-4744-2685-9

1-4744-1567-9

OCLC:

1301547498