Victorian Soul-Talk

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)