Barton Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought

Forms of Freedom
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-49488-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 257 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Studies the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy.

Discusses nineteenth-century poets as readers of philosophy and explore the peculiar capacity of poetry to act as a medium for liberal thought and expression

Offers an original and significant contribution to the field of nineteenth-century studies in its in-depth study of liberalism’s forming influence on a range of poets from the Romantic period to the last decades of the century

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barton, Anna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Locke in Pentameters.- 2. The Liberal Self: Wordsworth and Barrett Browning.- 3. Liberal Education: Wordsworth, Clough, Tennyson and Arnold.- 4. Liberalism in Love: Barrett Browning, Browning and Meredith.- 5. Liberal Republicanism: Clough, Barrett Browning and Swinburne.- 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.