Perspectives : Romantic, Victorian, and Modern literature /
Khan, Jalal Uddin,author.
An up-to-date explication of various popular and classic subjects and authors arranged chronologically.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1. Romantic -- The road not taken: a view of William Blake's originality -- Manfred: A key Byronic text -- Personal, political, scientific and Oriental: Contextualizing Coleride's Kuble Khan the new historicist way -- Shelley's Orientalia: Indian elements in his poetry (The influence of Sir William Jones and other Anglo-Indian writers on Shelley) -- Narrating Shelley's Ozymandias: A case of the cultural hybridity of the Eastern other -- Held to Aeolian and Apollonian lyres: a consideration of Keats's early poems -- Keats's Ode to a Nightingale: an appreciation of Keatsian aesthetics with possible sources and analogues -- Part 2. Victorian -- Victorian and Pre-Victorian reaction to (the history and culture of) British India: A look at James Mills, Alfred Tennyson, and John Ruskin -- Medievalism in Victorian prose and poetry -- Part 3. Modern -- The ideal of human perfection: (Ben) Jonsonian elements in Yeats -- Appendix: Art as an imitation or a mirror of life: The moral value of Ben Jonson's poetry -- Yeats and Maud Gonne: (Auto)biographical and artistic intersection -- The Irish Civil War: Yeats' "Easter 1916" and Irish nationalism -- The Spanish Civil War (1936-39): Its treatment in Malraux's Man's Hope, Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.
An up-to-date explication of various popular and classic subjects and authors arranged chronologically.
Romanticism
English fiction
English poetry
English literature
Modernism (Literature)
English fiction
English fiction.
English literature.
English poetry.
Modernism (Literature)
Romanticism.