Cunningham Victorian Poetry Now

Poets, Poems and Poetics
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4042-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 552 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Guides to Literature

This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which itsauthor approaches in the light of modern critical concerns andcontemporary contexts.
* Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of thepoetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readingsof 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 moderncritical concerns
* Places poetry in its personal, aesthetic, historical, andideological context
* Organized in terms of the Victorian anxieties of self, body,and melancholy
* Argues that rhyming/repetition is the major formal feature ofVictorian poetry
* Highlights the Victorian obsession with small subjects in smallpoems
* Shows how Victorian poetry attempts to engage with the modernsubject and how its modernity segues into modernism andpostmodernism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cunningham, Valentine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi
Part I: So Far as The Words Are Concerned 1
1 Words, Words, Words and More Words 3
2 Rhyming/Repeating 55
3 Making Noise/Noising Truths 73
4 These Rhyming/Repeating Games Are Serious 108
Part II: Contents and Discontents of The Forms 149
5 Down-Sizing 151
6 Selving 189
7 Fleshly Feelings 259
8 Mourning and Melancholia 323
9 Modernizing The Subject 409
10 Victorian Modernismus 463
Index 504

Über Autor(innen)

Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Language and Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His publications include Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel (1975), In The Reading Gaol: Postmodernity, Texts, and History (Blackwell, 1994), The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (ed., Blackwell, 2000), and Reading After Theory (Blackwell, 2002).