Early and mid-Victorian prose and poetry, 1832-1870 /
"Begins with a focus on the pivotal function of religion in the mid-nineteenth century and explores the resulting oscillation between Romantic escape, sceptical solipsism and social responsibility in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Browning, Clough and Matthew Arnold. The ae...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Peter Lang,
[2019]
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| Series: | History of English literature ;
volume 4. |
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| Summary: | "Begins with a focus on the pivotal function of religion in the mid-nineteenth century and explores the resulting oscillation between Romantic escape, sceptical solipsism and social responsibility in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Browning, Clough and Matthew Arnold. The aegis of religion was only broken by the advent of Pre-Raphaelitism. This trajectory is reflected in a series of well-known enigmatic masterworks by the Rossettis. In addition to these key works, space is also devoted to often neglected poets and poetry such as Patmore and Adelaide Procter, nonsense poetry and Lear's limericks, the dialect poet William Barnes, and the Victorian 'poetesses'. Finally, the author rescues from critical oblivion the Spasmodics, honours the minor prose masterpiece Dreamthorp by Alexander Smith, and registers the revival of drama with Taylor, Boucicault and Robertson."-- |
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| Item Description: | Book 1 translated from the Italian by Jean Ellis D'Alessandro. Book 2 translated by Jean Ellis D'Alessandro and Patricia Robison. Book 3 translated by Bernard Wade and Elizabeth Harrowell. Translation of Dal 1832 al 1870, Il saggismo e la poesia, volume 3, tome 1 of Storia della letteratura inglese. |
| Physical Description: | 3 volumes ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1789972027 3034322313 9781789972023 9783034322317 |