Victorian wastelands
Subtitle: apocalyptic discourse in nineteenth-century poetry
By: Ralph Pordzik
Series: Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 423; Anglistische Forschungen -- Heft 423.
Publisher: Winter; Universitätsverlag Winter; Universitatsverlag Winter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9783825359799
Subjects: History and criticism; Apocalypse in literature; English poetry; Apocalyptic literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond millennium: nineteenth-century crises and the iconology of Victorian apocalyptic poetry; title: The poetry of lastness: solitude and survivial in nineteenth-century apocalypticism; title: Under the shadow of the end: Arnold, Tennyson and the making of the modern wasteland; title: Prophets of discontent: apocalyptic poetry of the Crimean War; title: Meditating upon ruins: versions of urban apocalyptic in the poetry of Mathilde Blind, Robert Browning and James (B.V.) Thomson; title: Conclusion.