TY - BOOK AU - Cunningham,Valentine TI - Victorian Poets: a Critical Reader T2 - Blackwell Critical Reader SN - 9780631199137 (hardback) AV - PR593 .V57 2014 U1 - 821.809 V66 2014 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; , Malden, Massachusetts, USA PB - Wiley Blackwell KW - English poetry KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; JHS N2 - "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 "-- UR - http://catalogimages.wiley.com/images/db/jimages/9780631199137.jpg ER -