Victorian Soul-Talk
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-52505-1 (ISBN)
Julia F. Saville was educated at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and Stanford University, USA, and is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the author of A Queer Chivalry: the Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2000).
Chapter One. Introduction: Poetic Soul-Talk and Civic Virtue.- Chapter Two. Transnational Republican and Feminist: The Political Ethics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Soul Poetics.- Chapter Three. "Citizen Clough," the "Soul's Own Soul," and the Dangers of Complying.- Chapter Four. "Talk inside the Soul" with Robert Browning's "Saviour of Society".- Chapter Five. "The Hum of Your Valvèd Voice": Walt Whitman's Soul and His Democratic Soul Politic.- Chapter Six. "Souls Overcast" and "The Shadow-less Soul": Swinburne's Elemental Republicanism.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.
"The book is not only an exposition of political discourse but concurrently an analysis of form, a rich and ambitious undertaking." (Isobel Armstrong, Modern Philology, Vol. 117 (1), May, 2019)
“The book is not only an exposition of political discourse but concurrently an analysis of form, a rich and ambitious undertaking.” (Isobel Armstrong, Modern Philology, Vol. 117 (1), May, 2019)
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.04.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
Zusatzinfo | XII, 307 p. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Biography, Literature and Literary studies • Body • Browning • Emerson • Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 • Literary studies: poetry and poets • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • Nineteenth-Century Literature • Poetry • Poetry and Poetics • Politics • Swinburne |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-52505-0 / 3319525050 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-52505-1 / 9783319525051 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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