Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement
Subtitle: The Tractarian Social Vision
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781350120723
Subjects: English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century; Hunger; Social evolution; Literature and society; Great britain, history, 19th century
Description: "Focusing on the influence of the Oxford Movement on key British poets of the nineteenth-century, this book charts their ruminations on the nature of hunger, poverty and economic injustice. Exploring the works of Christina Rossetti, Coventry Patmore, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Adelaide Anne Procter, Alice Meynell and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lesa Scholl examines the extent to which these poets - not all of whom were Anglo-Catholics themselves - engaged with the Tractarian social vision when grappling with issues of poverty and economic injustice in and beyond their poetic works. By engaging with economic and cultural history, as well as the sensorial materiality of poetry, Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement challenges the assumption that High-Church politics were essentially conservative and removed from the social crises of the Victorian period."--