Victorian poetry as cultural critique
Subtitle: the politics of performative language
By: E. Warwick Slinn.
Series: Victorian literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Political poetry, English -- History and criticism; Social problems in literature; Culture in literature
Description: "In Victorian Poetry as Cultural Critique, E. Warwick Slinn explores works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Augusta Webster, arguing that a fundamental continuity between the meaning of a poetic trope and the social function of language can be established through speech act theory - specifically through the linguistically based model of performativity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Poetry and culture : performativity and critique; title: Browning's Bishop conceives a tomb : cultural ordering as cultural critique; title: The mark as matrix : subject(ion) and agency in Barrett Browning's "The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point"; title: Clough's resisted performative : material act and bacchanalian revel in Dipsychus; title: Prostitution, representation, and desire : the politics of male liberalism in D. G. Rossetti's "Jenny"; title: Webster's castaway courtesan : living on the cultural margin; title: Afterword : form as process.