Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415525886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 556 str.

Isobel Armstrong

Opis

In this 2^nd edition of her classic work Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong provides:

• a new preface that notes key directions in Victorian poetry criticism - the turn to form, the turn to affect and the emotions, cosmopolitan and global impulses, and the attention to optical culture
• an afterword devoted to the Fin de Siecle, discussing Michael Field and Vernon Lee, the late epics of Swinburne and Morris, and a selection of Hardy lyrics
• a full bibliography for the last twenty years, taking into account in particular the work of Herbert Tucker, Yopie Prins, Cornelia Pearsall, Catherine Robson, Mike Sanders, Danny Karlin, Ana Vadillo and Marion Thain.

Spis treści

Preface to the second edition  Preface to the first edition Acknowledgements   Introduction: Re-Reading Victorian Poetry  Part 1: Conservative and Benthamite aesthetics of the avant-garde: Tennyson and Browning in the 1830s  1. Two systems of concentric circles  2. Experiments of 1830: Tennyson and the formation of subversive conservative poetry  3. 1832: Critique of the poetry of sensation  4. Experiments in the 1830s: Browning and the Benthamite formation  5. The politics of dramatic form  Part 2: Mid-century: European revolution and Crimean War – democratic, liberal, radical and feminine voices  6. Individualism under pressure  7. The radical in crisis: Clough  8. The liberal in crisis: Arnold  9. A new radical aesthetic – the Grotesque as cultural critique: Morris  10. Tennyson in the 1850s: new experiments in conservative poetry and the Type  11. Browning in the 1850s and after: new experiments in radical poetry and the Grotesque  12. ‘A music of thine own’: women’s poetry – an expressive tradition?  Part 3: Another culture? Another poetics?  Introduction: the 1860s and after: aesthetics, language, power and high finance 13. Swinburne: agonistic republican – the poetry of sensation as democratic critique  14. Hopkins: agonistic reactionary – the Grotesque as conservative form  15. Meredith and others: hard, gem-like dissidence  16. James Thomson: atheist, blasphemer and anarchist – the Grotesque sublime  17. Alternative fin de siecles: Rudyard Kipling, Michael Field, Thomas Hardy and Alice Meynell  Notes  Indicative bibliography

O autorze

Isobel Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.