This book makes a timely intervention in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. It both reflects on and contributes to emergent critical trends, employing case studies of individual texts, authors, transactions and performances to rethink particular aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture and to address key questions raised by the study of the period.
Individual chapters explore how best to locate and demarcate the period, the dissemination of texts and ideas around the globe, the appropriation of...
This book makes a timely intervention in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. It...
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.
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...
