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Victorian poetry : poetry, poetics, and politics
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- Creator
- Isobel Armstrong
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xi, 545 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415144254, 0415144256
- OCLC
- ocm36050080
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Two systems of concentric circles -- Experiments of 1830: Tennyson and the formation of subversive, conservative poetry: Tory poetry: the strength of reaction -- 1832: critique of the poetry of sensation: loss of nerve: the decadence of the poetry of sensation and a new conservatism -- Experiments in the 1830s: Browning and the Benthamite formation: alternative radical poetry and its problems -- The politics of dramatic form: the dramatic poem and the theory of fictions -- Individualism under pressure -- The radical in crisis: clough -- The liberal in crisis: Arnold -- A new radical aesthetic: the Grotesque as cultural critique: Morris -- Tennyson in the 1850s: new experiments in conservative poetry and the type: from geology to pathology: In memoriam (1850) to Maud (1855) -- Browning in the 1850s and after: new experiments in radical poetry and the Grotesque -- 'A music of thine own': women's poetry: an expressive tradition? -- Swinburne: agnositc republican: the poetry of sensation as democratic critique -- Hopkins: agonistic reactionary: the Grotesque as conservative form -- Meredith and others: hard, gem-like dissidence -- James Thomson: atheist, blasphemer and anarchist: the Grotesque sublime