Victorian poetry and the culture of the heart /
Kirstie Blair considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, arguing that it highlights anxieties about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. She covers poems by authors such as Tennyson and the Brownings and contextualises them with reference to lesser-known work...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Oxford English monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Kirstie Blair considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, arguing that it highlights anxieties about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. She covers poems by authors such as Tennyson and the Brownings and contextualises them with reference to lesser-known works. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191534386 0191534382 1280905727 9781280905728 9780191706592 0191706590 9786610905720 661090572X 1435607155 9781435607156 |