Victorian poetry : poetry, poetics and politics /: poetry, poetics and politics. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Isobel Armstrong.
• Authors: Armstrong, Isobel
• Contents: Preface 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 Postscript Afterword Bibliography
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 821.809; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 19th century -- Political aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317688808; 9781317688815; 9781317688792
• Related ISBNs: 9780415525886
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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