Victorian Poets : a Critical Reader / edited by Valentine Cunningham.

Contributor(s):

Cunningham, Valentine [editor of compilation.]

text.

ISBN:

9780631199137 (hardback)
9780631199144 (paper)

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Victorian PoetsDDC classification:

23 821.809 V66 2014

LOC classification:

PR593 .V57 2014

Other classification:

HS
LIT004120

Online resources:

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Contents:

Contributors vii Introduction 1 1 The Echo and the Mirror en abime in Victorian Poetry 15 Gerhard Joseph 2 The Mirror s Secret: Dante Gabriel Rossetti s Double Work of Art 27 J Hillis Miller 3 Browning s Anxious Gaze 46 Ann Wordsworth 4 The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning s Dramatic Monologues 56 Jennifer A Wagner-Lawlor 5 Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric 75 Herbert F Tucker 6 Matthew Arnold s Gipsies: Intertextuality and the New Historicism 95 Antony Harrison 7 A New Radical Aesthetic: The Grotesque as Cultural Critique: Morris 118 Isobel Armstrong 8 Alienated Majesty: Gerard M Hopkins 143 Geoffrey Hill 9 Fact and Tact: Arnoldian Fact-finding and Q Tactlessness in the Reading of Gerard Hopkins 160 Valentine Cunningham 10 A Thousand Times I d be a Factory Girl : Dialect, Domesticity, and Working-Class Women s Poetry in Victorian Britain 174 Susan Zlotnick 11 The fruitful feud of hers and his : Sameness, Difference, and Gender in Victorian Poetry 199 Dorothy Mermin 12 Eat me, drink me, love me : The Consumable Female Body in Christina Rossetti s Goblin Market 221 Mary Wilson Carpenter 13 Browning s Corpses 243 Carol T Christ 14 A E Housman and the colour of his hair 255 Christopher Ricks 15 Tennyson s Little Hamlet 268 David G Riede 16 The Disappointment of Christina G Rossetti 286 Eric Griffiths 17 Stirring a Dust of Figures : Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Love 316 Angela Leighton 18 Love, let us be true to one another : Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough and our Aqueous Ages 333 Joseph Bristow 19 Poets and lovers evermore : The Poetry and Journals of Michael Field 358 Chris White 20 Swinburne at Work: The First Page of Anactoria 380 Timothy A J Burnett 21 Naming and Not Naming: Tennyson and Mallarme 390 Mary Ann Caws and Gerhard Joseph Index 411

Summary: "Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism on Victorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field Illustrates the full range of critical approaches to the Victorian poets, including attention to texts, words, forms, modes, and sub-genres Offers fresh reinterpretations, many driven by contemporary ideological interests, including gender questions, selfhood, and body issues "--

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	High School Library General Circulation Section	GC	GC 821.809 V66 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	33575HS

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism on Victorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field Illustrates the full range of critical approaches to the Victorian poets, including attention to texts, words, forms, modes, and sub-genres Offers fresh reinterpretations, many driven by contemporary ideological interests, including gender questions, selfhood, and body issues "--