Victorian poetry : poetry, poetics, and politics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Armstrong, Isobel
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Subjects:	English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Canon (Literature) English poetry Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Conservative and Benthamite aesthetics of the avant-garde : Tennyson and Browning in the 1830s
1. Two systems of concentric circles
2. Experiments of 1830 : Tennyson and the formation of subversive, conservative poetry
3. 1832 : critique of the poetry of sensation
4. Experiments in the 1830s : Browning and the Benthamite formation
5. The politics of dramatic form
pt. 2. Mid-century : European revolution and Crimean war--democratic, liberal, radical and feminine voices
6. Individualism under pressure
7. The radical in crisis : Clough
8. The liberal in crisis : Arnold
9. A new radical aesthetic--the Grotesque as cultural critique : Morris
10. Tennyson in the 1850s : new experiments in conservative poetry and the Type
11. Browning in the 1850s and after : new experiments in radical poetry and the Grotesque
12. 'A music of thine own' : women's poetry--an expressive tradition?
pt. 3. Another culture? Another poetics?
13. Swinburne : agonistic republican--the poetry of sensation as democratic critique
14. Hopkins : agonistic reactionary--the Grotesque as conservative form
15. Meredith and others : hard, gem-like dissidence
16. James Thomson : atheist, blasphemer and anarchist--the Grotesque sublime.