Victorian poets and the politics of culture
Subtitle: discourse and ideology
By: Antony H. Harrison.
Series: Victorian literature and culture series
Publisher: University Press of Virginia; University of Virginia Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780813918181
Subjects: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Political and social views.; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- Political and social views.; Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888 -- Political and social views.; Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 -- Political and social views.; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Culture -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Medievalism -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Discourse analysis, Literary.; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Description: With the publication of his ambitious new work Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture, Antony H. Harrison continues his exploration of poetry as a significant force in the construction of English culture from 1837 to about 1900. In chapters focusing on Victorian medievalist discourse, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Christina Rossetti, Harrison examines a range of Victorian poems in order to show the cultural work they accomplish.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: discourse, ideology, poetry; title: Medievalist discourse and the ideologies of Victorian poetry; title: Merlin and Tennyson: poetry of power and Victorian self-fashioning; title: Elizabeth Barrett in 1838: "weakness like omnipotence"; title: Matthew Arnold's gipsies: ideology and the discourse of the other; title: Christina Rossetti: renunciation as intervention; title: Afterword