Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation
Title Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation PDF eBook
Author Clara Dawson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 262
Release 2020-02-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0192598139

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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation argues that the dialectic and dynamic relationship between the periodical review and poetry creates a culture of evaluation which shapes Victorian poetic form. The mediation of poetry by the periodical review orients poets towards public readership and reception, heightening their self-consciousness about their audience and generating a poetics of publicness. Using methodologies associated with historical poetics and new formalism, the book examines the dialogues between poets and periodical reviews from the 1830s to the 1860s. It juxtaposes male and female poets and canonical and uncanonical texts. Challenging the critical binaries of fame and celebrity, the culture of evaluation posits a new way of reading Victorian poetry. It illuminates poets' engagement with the immediacy and inevitability of writing for the present and for the contemporary media through which poetry was read and disseminated. New patterns of reception were created by mass print culture and both poets and reviewers were preoccupied with reaching the newly constituted mass audience. The changes to the material forms of poetry (e.g. through the periodical or gift-book) and the subjection to the commercial imperatives of the literary marketplace encouraged bold experiment with verse. The book identifies three poetic strategies for articulating the preoccupation with a mass audience and the demands of mass media: voice, style and address. Chapters on voice, style, and address explore the development of poetic form in dialogue with periodical reviews.

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation
Title Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation PDF eBook
Author Clara Dawson
Publisher
Pages 249
Release 2020
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0198856105

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Demonstrates how periodicals, newspapers, and annuals influenced Victorian poetry and offers fresh interpretations of central Victorian poets including Tennyson, Barrett Browning, Browning, Arnold, Landon, and Clough.

Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry

Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry
Title Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry PDF eBook
Author Annmarie Drury
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 311
Release 2015-05-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1316299732

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Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry illuminates the dynamic mutual influences of poetic and translation cultures in Victorian Britain, drawing on new materials, archival and periodical, to reveal the range of thinking about translation in the era. The results are a new account of Victorian translation and fresh readings both of canonical poems (including those by Browning and Tennyson) and of non-canonical poems (including those by Michael Field). Revealing Victorian poets to be crucial agents of intercultural negotiation in an era of empire, Annmarie Drury shows why and how meter matters so much to them, and locates the origins of translation studies within Victorian conundrums. She explores what it means to 'sound Victorian' in twentieth-century poetic translation, using Swahili as a case study, and demonstrates how and why it makes sense to consider Victorian translation as world literature in action.

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Title Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning PDF eBook
Author Fiona Sampson
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 291
Release 2021-08-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1324002964

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Finalist for the 2022 Plutarch Award Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 “An elegant act of rehabilitation.”—New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A "nuanced and insightful" (New Statesman) portrait of Britain’s most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordinary life is an electrifying study in self-invention. Born in 1806, Barrett Browning lived in an age when women could not attend a university, own property after marriage, or vote. And yet she seized control of her private income, defied chronic illness and disability, became an advocate for the revolutionary Italy to which she eloped, and changed the course of cultural history. Her late-in-life verse novel masterpiece, Aurora Leigh, reveals both the brilliance and originality of her mind, as well as the challenges of being a woman writer in the Victorian era. A feminist icon, high-profile activist for the abolition of slavery, and international literary superstar, Barrett Browning inspired writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. Two-Way Mirror is the first biography of Barrett Browning in more than three decades. With unique access to the poet’s abundant correspondence, “astute, thoughtful, and wide-ranging guide” (Times [UK]) Fiona Sampson holds up a mirror to the woman, her art, and the art of biography itself.

Casa Guidi Windows

Casa Guidi Windows
Title Casa Guidi Windows PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher
Pages 190
Release 1851
Genre Italy
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Victorian Literature and Culture

Victorian Literature and Culture
Title Victorian Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author Maureen Moran
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 195
Release 2006-11-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1441147934

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This guide to Victorian Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1837-1900, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background including politics and economics, popular culture, philosophy - major writers and genres including the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Trollope, Thackeray, Conan Doyle, Ibsen, Shaw, Hopkins, Rossetti and Tennyson - concise explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism - key critical approaches - a chronology mapping historical events and literary works and further reading including websites and electronic resources.

The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry

The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
Title The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry PDF eBook
Author Reza Taher-Kermani
Publisher Edinburgh Critical Studies in
Pages 240
Release 2022-02-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781474448178

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The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated and appropriated.