โ Scribed by Isobel Armstrong
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.
Title......Page 3
Contents ......Page 6
Preface ......Page 8
Acknowledgements ......Page 10
Introduction Rereading Victorian Poetry ......Page 12
1 Two Systems Of Concentric Circles ......Page 34
2 Experiments Of 1830 ......Page 50
3 1832: Critique Of The Poetry Of Sensation ......Page 86
4 Experiments In The 1830s ......Page 120
5 The Politics Of Dramatic Form ......Page 144
6 Individualism Under Pressure ......Page 172
7 The Radical In Crisis: Clough ......Page 186
8 The Liberal In Crisis: Arnold ......Page 212
9 A New Radical Aesthetic ......Page 238
10 Tennyson In The 1850s ......Page 258
11 Browning In The 1850s And After ......Page 290
12 โA Music Of Thine Ownโ......Page 322
Introduction The 1860s And After ......Page 382
13 Swinburne: Agonistic Republican ......Page 402
14 Hopkins: Agonistic Reactionary ......Page 420
15 Meredith And Others ......Page 440
16 James Thomson: Atheist, Blasphemer And Anarchist ......Page 460
Postscript ......Page 478
Notes ......Page 490
Index ......Page 534
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