Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought: Forms of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9781137494870 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 257 str.

Anna Barton

Opis

It provides an account of poetry's intervention into four different sites where liberalism has a stake: the self, the university, married life and the nation state and it seeks to assert the peculiar capacity of poetry to articulate liberal concerns, proposing poetic language as a means of liberal enquiry.

Recenzje

"Approach to liberalism constitutes at once the book's main liability and its greatest strength. ... nineteenth-century poets engaged with the progressive social thought of their day not only when they addressed it directly but in all their poems, even the most apparently private. Barton's often revelatory new formalist analyses compellingly demonstrate the real intellectual work that poetry can perform." (Erik Gray, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 70 (293), February, 2019)

Spis treści

1. Locke in Pentameters.- 2. The Liberal Self: Wordsworth and Barrett Browning.- 3. Liberal Education: Wordsworth, Clough, Tennyson and Arnold.- 4. Liberalism in Love: Barrett Browning, Browning and Meredith.- 5. Liberal Republicanism: Clough, Barrett Browning and Swinburne.- 6. Conclusion.

O autorze

Anna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.