Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart

2006-04-27
Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart

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  • Author: Kirstie Blair
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
  • ISBN: 0199273944
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

This study considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry. It argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in the period highlights anxieties about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. It covers key poems by authors such as Tennyson and the Brownings, and contextualizes them with reference to lesser-known works.

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation

2020-02
Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation

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  • Author: Clara Dawson
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0198856105
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation argues that the dialectic and dynamic relationship between the periodical review and poetry creates a culture of evaluation which shapes Victorian poetic form. The mediation of poetry by the periodical review orients poets towards public readership and reception, heightening their self-consciousness about their audience and generating a poetics of publicness. Using methodologies associated with historical poetics and new formalism, the book examines the dialogues between poets and periodical reviews from the 1830s to the 1860s. It juxtaposes male and female poets and canonical and uncanonical texts. Challenging the critical binaries of fame and celebrity, the culture of evaluation posits a new way of reading Victorian poetry. It illuminates poets' engagement with the immediacy and inevitability of writing for the present and for the contemporary media through which poetry was read and disseminated. New patterns of reception were created by mass print culture and both poets and reviewers were preoccupied with reaching the newly constituted mass audience. The changes to the material forms of poetry (e.g. through the periodical or gift-book) and the subjection to the commercial imperatives of the literary marketplace encouraged bold experiment with verse. The book identifies three poetic strategies for articulating the preoccupation with a mass audience and the demands of mass media: voice, style and address. Chapters on voice, style, and address explore the development of poetic form in dialogue with periodical reviews.

The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

2010-05-20
The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

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  • Author: Linda K. Hughes
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107782678
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, paying particular attention to its role in mass media print culture. Designed to interest both students and scholars, the book traces lively dialogues between poets and explains poets' choices of form, style and language. It also demonstrates poetry's relevance to Victorian debates on science, social justice, religion, imperialism, and art. Featuring a glossary of literary terms, a guide to further reading, and two examples of close readings of Victorian poems, this introduction is the ideal starting-point for the study of verse in the nineteenth century.

Victorian Poetry

2019-01-30
Victorian Poetry

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  • Author: Isobel Armstrong
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317688805
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 576

In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as ‘a moralised form of romantic verse' and unearthed its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute new edition, Armstrong provides an entirely new preface that notes the key advances in the criticism of Victorian poetry since her classic work was first published in 1993. A new chapter on the alternative fin de siècle sees Armstrong discuss Michael Field, Rudyard Kipling, Alice Meynell and a selection of Hardy lyrics. The extensive bibliography acts as a key resource for students and scholars alike.

Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

2010-07-08
Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

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  • Author: Adela Pinch
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139489089
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thing to do. In this book, Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or desirable, to believe that thinking about another person could affect them. She explains why nineteenth-century British writers - poets, novelists, philosophers, psychologists, devotees of the occult - were both attracted to and repulsed by radical or substantial notions of purely mental relations between persons, and why they moralized about the practice of thinking about other people in interesting ways. Working at the intersection of literary studies and philosophy, this book both sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Victorian literature and thought, and explores the consequences of, and the value placed on, this strand of thinking about thinking.

The Heart's Events

1976
The Heart's Events

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  • Author: Patricia M. Ball
  • Publisher: London : Athlone Press
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

Academic Practice Tests will help you prepare for the Academic module of the IELTS test by identifying problem areas and familiarising yourself with the test format. Containing five practice tests, the book includes full transcripts and answer key and has been extensively tested in IELTS preparation classes.

Poetry in the Making

2021-01-19
Poetry in the Making

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  • Author: Daniel Tyler
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0198784562
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 255

An edited collection on poetic creation in the Victorian period that studies nine major Victorian poets: Wordsworth, Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Clough, Christina Rossetti, Hopkins, Swinburne, and Yeats.

Matters of the Heart

2010-01-14
Matters of the Heart

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  • Author: Fay Bound Alberti
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • ISBN: 019160917X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

The heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body. Across cultures it is seen as the site of emotions, as well as the origin of life. We feel emotions in the heart, from the heart-stopping sensation of romantic love to the crushing sensation of despair. And yet since the nineteenth century the heart has been redefined in medical terms as a pump, an organ responsible for the circulation of the blood. Emotions have been removed from the heart as an active site of influence and towards the brain. It is the brain that is the organ most commonly associated with emotion in the modern West. So why, then, do the emotional meanings of the heart linger? Why do many transplantation patients believe that the heart, for instance, can transmit memories and emotions and why do we still refer to emotions as 'heartfelt'? We cannot answer these questions without reference to the history of the heart as both physical organ and emotional symbol. Matters of the Heart traces the ways emotions have been understood between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries as both physical entities and spiritual experiences. With reference to historical interpretations of such key concepts as gender, emotion, subjectivity and the self, it also addresses the shifting relationship from heart to brain as competing centres of emotion in the West..

Victorian Poetry

2016
Victorian Poetry

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  • Category : English poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 594

The Victorian Verse-novel

2017
The Victorian Verse-novel

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  • Author: Stefanie Markovits
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0198718861
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 311

The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the verse-novel, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Such poems combined epic length with novelistic plots in the attempt to capture not a heroic past but the quotidian present. Victorian verse-novels also tended to be rough-mixed, their narrative sections interspersed with shorter, lyrical verses in varied measures. In flouting the rules of contemporary genre theory, which saw poetry as the purview of the eternal and ideal and relegated the everyday to the domain of novelistic prose, verse-novels proved well suited to upsetting other hierarchies, as well, including those of gender and class. The genre's radical energies often emerge from the competition between lyric and narrative drives, between the desire for transcendence and the quest to find meaning in what happens next; the unusual marriage plots that structure such poems prove crucibles of these rival forces. Generic tensions also yield complex attitudes towards time and space: the book's first half considers the temporality of love, while its second looks at generic geography through the engagement of novels in verse with Europe and the form's transatlantic travels. Both well-known verse-novels (Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage, Coventry Patmore's The Angel in the House) and lesser-known examples are read closely alongside a few nearly related works (Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book). An Afterword traces the verse-novel's substantial influence on the modernist novel.