| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Murder, execution, and the criminal classes -- The murderous subject and the criminal sublime -- "Household law" and the domestication of murder |
| Summary |
"Over the last few decades, Victorian scholars have produced many nuanced studies connecting the politics of crime to the generic developments of the novel - and vice versa. Ellen L. O'Brien's Crime in Verse grants the same attention and status to poetic representations of crime. Considering the literary achievements and cultural engagements of poetry while historicizing murder's entanglement in legal fictions, punitive practices, medical theories, class conflicts, and gender codes, O'Brien argues that shifting approaches to poetry and conflicted understandings of murder allowed poets to align problems of legal and literary interpretation in provocative, disruptive, and innovative ways." |
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"Developing focused analyses of generic and discursive meanings, individual chapters examine the classed politics of crime and punishment in the broadside ballad, the epistemological tensions of homicidal lunacy and criminal responsibility in the dramatic monologue, and the legal and ideological frictions of domestic violence in the verse novel and verse drama. Their juxtaposition of the rhymes of anonymous street balladeers, the underexamined verse of "minor" poets, and the familiar poems of canonical figures suggests the interactive and intertextual relationships informing poetic agendas and political arguments |
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As it simultaneously reconsiders the institutional and ideological status of murder and the aesthetic and political interests of poetry, Crime in Verse offers new ways of thinking about Victorian poetry's contents and contexts."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Crime in literature.
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Murder in literature.
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Crime -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Poets, English -- 19th century -- Political and social views
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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literary criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Crime in literature
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Crime -- Political aspects
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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English poetry
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Law and literature
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Literature and society
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Murder in literature
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Poets, English -- Political and social views
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Politics and literature
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Lyrik
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Mord Motiv
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Great Britain
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Englisch.
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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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| LC no. |
2007052288 |
| ISBN |
9780814271988 |
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0814271987 |
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