Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture

Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture
Title Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture PDF eBook
Author Antony H. Harrison
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 212
Release 1998
Genre History
ISBN 9780813918181

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With the publication of his ambitious new work Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture, Antony H. Harrison continues his exploration of poetry as a significant force in the construction of English culture from 1837-1900. In chapters focusing on Victorian medievalist discourse, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Christina Rossetti, Harrison examines a range of Victorian poems in order to show the cultural work they accomplish. He illuminates, for example, such culturally prominent Victorian mythologies as the exaltation of motherhood, the Romanic appropriation of transcendent art, and the idealization of the gypsy as a culturally alien, exotic Other. His investigation of the ways in which the authors intervene in the discourses that articulate such mythologies and thereby accrue cultural power--along with his analysis of what constitutes "cultural power"--are original contributions to the field of Victorian studies. "The power of Victorian poetry by midcentury was enhanced by the institutionalization of particular channels through which it circulated," Harrison writes. "poetry was 'consumed' in more varied forms than was other literature." Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture has implications for both cultural studies and the study of literature outside the Victorian period.

Victorian Poetry as Cultural Critique

Victorian Poetry as Cultural Critique
Title Victorian Poetry as Cultural Critique PDF eBook
Author E. Warwick Slinn
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 240
Release 2003
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780813921662

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The discussion of each poem attends to the complexity of the poem's utterance, its historical contexts, and its broader implications for cultural meaning.Victorian Literature and Culture Series

Victorian Poetry

Victorian Poetry
Title Victorian Poetry PDF eBook
Author Isobel Armstrong
Publisher Routledge
Pages 554
Release 2002-09-11
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1134970668

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In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry

Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry
Title Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry PDF eBook
Author Barbara Barrow
Publisher Routledge
Pages 185
Release 2019-05-29
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0429575203

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Barrow’s timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow demonstrates that nineteenth-century debates about language played a key role in shaping emergent ideas about popular sovereignty. While Victorian scientists studied the origins of speech, the history of dialects, and the barrier between human and animal language, poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Thomas Hardy drew on this research to explore social unrest, the expansion of the electorate, and the ever-widening boundaries of empire. Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry recovers unacknowledged links between poetry, philology, and political culture, and contributes to recent movements in literary studies that combine historicist and formalist approaches.

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
Title Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart PDF eBook
Author Kirstie Blair
Publisher Clarendon Press
Pages 284
Release 2006-04-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0191534382

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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, and argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in many major Victorian poems highlights anxieties in this period about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. In the course of the nineteenth century, this study argues, increased doubt about the validity of feeling led to the depiction of the literary heart as alienated, distant, outside the control of mind and will. This coincided with a notable rise in medical literature specifically concerned with the pathological heart, and with the development of new techniques and instruments of investigation such as the stethoscope. As poets feared for the health of their own hearts, their poetry embodies concerns about a widespread culture of heartsickness in both form and content. In addition, concerns about the heart's status and actions reflect upon questions of religious faith and doubt, and feed into issues of gender and nationalism. This book argues that it is vital to understand how this wider culture of the heart informed poetry and was in turn influenced by poetic constructs. Individual chapters on Barrett Browning, Arnold, and Tennyson explore the vital presence of the heart in major works by these poets - including Aurora Leigh, 'Empedocles on Etna', In Memoriam, and Maud - while the wide-ranging opening chapters present an argument for the mutual influence of poetry and physiology in the period and trace the development of new theories of rhythm as organic and affective.

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
Title The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry PDF eBook
Author Joseph Bristow
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 364
Release 2000-10-26
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521646802

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This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.