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Victorian poetry : poetry, poetics, and politics /

In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as 'a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

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Formato: Printed Book
Idioma:English
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
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245 |a Victorian poetry :   |b poetry, poetics, and politics /  |c  Isobel Armstrong  |h English 
260 |a London ; New York :  |b  Routledge,  |c  1993. 
300 |a  xi, 545 pp.  |c 24 cm 
505 |a  pt. 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 -- pt. 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? -- pt. 3. Another culture? Another poetics? -- 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. 
520 |a In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as 'a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics. 
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