'Fading Crimean Flowers': Spasmodic Sonnets on the War. (July 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'Fading Crimean Flowers': Spasmodic Sonnets on the War. (July 2018)
- Main Title:
- 'Fading Crimean Flowers': Spasmodic Sonnets on the War
- Authors:
- Willett, Mischa
- Abstract:
- Abstract : In their refusal to aestheticise Crimean warfare, as most of their fellow poets and newspapermen had done, Sydney Dobell and Alexander Smith, in the co-authored Sonnets on the War (1855) present a harrowing picture of the conflict from myriad viewpoints, all of which deny the patriotism and hawkishness implicit in glamorising armed conflict. This poly-vocalic collection pushes more boundaries than has previously been noticed. The choice of form, itself a commentary – this is not a war fit for epic – the emphasis on women's roles, and the anonymous and ventriloquised voicing announce departures from conventions of martial verse, and also from what we have heretofore understood about these poets' careers.
- Is Part Of:
- Victoriographies. Volume 8:Number 2(2018)
- Journal:
- Victoriographies
- Issue:
- Volume 8:Number 2(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 8, Issue 2 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0008-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 135
- Page End:
- 150
- Publication Date:
- 2018-07
- Subjects:
- Crimea -- war poetry -- Spasmodics -- Sydney Dobell -- Alexander Smith -- drama -- women
English literature -- 19th century -- Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals
820.9358 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/vic ↗
http://www.euppublishing.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3366/vic.2018.0302 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2044-2416
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- Legaldeposit
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