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Item Details
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VICTORIAN POETRY NOW
POETS, POEMS AND POETICS |
| By: |
Valentine Cunningham |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£39.59 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1444340417 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781444340419 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2011 |
| Series: |
Wiley Blackwell Guides to Literature |
| Pages: |
552 |
| Synopsis: |
This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts. Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poemsDraws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poemsReads poems and poets in the light of both Victorian and modern critical concernsPlaces poetry in its personal, aesthetic, historical, and ideological contextOrganized in terms of the Victorian anxieties of self, body, and melancholyArgues that rhyming/repetition is the major formal feature of Victorian poetryHighlights the Victorian obsession with small subjects in small poemsShows how Victorian poetry attempts to engage with the modern subject and how its modernity segues into modernism and postmodernism |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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