John Holmes

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence

Sexuality, Belief and the Self

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how leading sonneteers, including the Rossettis, John Addington Symonds, Wilfrid Blunt and Augusta Webster, and their early twentieth-century successors Rosa Newmarch and Rupert Brooke, addressed the urgent questions of selfhood, religious belief and doubt, and sexual and national identity which troubled late Victorian England. Drawing on the heritage of the sonnet sequence, the poetic self-portraits they created are unsurpassed in their subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780367887858
• ISBN-10: 0367887851
• Artikelnr.: 58441351

Autorenporträt

Dr. John Holmes is Lecturer at the School of English and American Literature, University of Reading, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction: Rossetti, the sonnet sequence and the late Victorian self
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's inclusiveness: method and meaning in The House of Life
The sons of Gabriel
Christina Rossetti replies: Monna Innominata and Later Life
From sexuality to sexualities: Marzials, Barlow, Blunt and Symonds
Female identity in transition: Gregory, Webster and Newmarch
Structures of the self: dialectic and myth in John Addington Symonds's Animi Figura
From Rossetti to Rupert Brooke: the self and the nation
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.