| Description |
1 online resource (16 entries) |
| Contents |
Preface -- pt. I. So far as the words are concerned -- Words, words, words and more words -- Rhyming/repeating -- Making noise/noising truths -- These rhyming/repeating games are serious -- pt. II. Contents and discontents of the forms -- Down-sizing -- Selving -- Fleshly feelings -- Mourning and melancholia -- Modernizing the subject -- Victorian modernismus |
| Summary |
This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts. - Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poems - Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems - Reads poems and poets in the light of both Victorian and modern critical concerns - Places poetry in its personal, aesthetic, historical, and ideological context - Organized in terms of the Victorian anxieties of self, body, and melancholy - Argues that rhyming/repetition is the major formal feature of Victorian poetry - Highlights the Victorian obsession with small subjects in small poems - Shows how Victorian poetry attempts to engage with the modern subject and how its modernity segues into modernism and postmodernism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Title page of print version |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Poetics -- History -- 19th century.
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Poetry -- Authorship -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1782687610 (online) |
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9781782687610 (online) |
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(hardback) |
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(hardback) |
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