Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 448 g
English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building
Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 448 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-928202-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford
The poets of the mid-nineteenth century lived in a time of 'nation-building'. The Realms of Verse brings this political and intellectual context to life. Drawing on a wide range of soources, Matthew Reynolds shows that the Italian Risorgimento raised questions about community and individual liberty which were especially problematic for subjects of the multi-national United Kingdom, and argues that these questions are at the heart of the poetry of Robert and
Elizabeth Browning, Tennyson, and Clough. Their long poems characteristically tell stories about marriage, investigating the symbolic and actual interactions between that personal union and national unity. Their verse as a whole exploits correspondences between political government and poetic form, and is
alert to its own role in fostering a common culture. Historically detailed, theoretically astute, critically nimble, and stylishly written, The Realms of Verse is the most far-reaching reassessment of Victorian poetry to have been published in recent years.
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of nineteenth-century English poetry, especially in its relation to the political and historic events.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
