Title: Victorian poetry as cultural critique
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.
Subjects: Culture in literature, English Political poetry, English poetry, History, History and criticism, Literature and society, Politics and literature, Social problems in literature, English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, Political poetry, history and criticism
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century