Algernon Charles Swinburne (eBook, PDF)

Unofficial Laureate
Redaktion: Maxwell, Catherine; Evangelista, Stefano

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), dramatist, novelist and critic, was late Victorian England's unofficial Poet Laureate. Swinburne was admired by his contemporaries for his technical brilliance, his facility with classical and medieval forms, and his courage in expressing his sensual, erotic imagination. He was one of the most important Victorian poets, the founding figure for British aestheticism, and the dominant influence for fin-de-siècle and many modernist poets. This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of this fascinating and complex figure. It situates him in the light of current critical work on cosmopolitanism, politics, form, Victorian Hellenism, gender and sexuality, the arts, and aestheticism and its contested relation to literary modernism. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne's work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526130488
• Artikelnr.: 54363483

Autorenporträt

Catherine Maxwell is Professor of Victorian Literature at Queen Mary, University of London Stefano Evangelista is Fellow and Tutor in English at Trinity College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista Cultural Discourse 1. Swinburne's French voice: cosmopolitanism and cultural mediation in aesthetic criticism
Stefano Evangelista 2. Swinburne's swimmers: from insular peace to the Anglo
Boer War
Julia F. Saville 3. Swinburne: a nineteenth
century Hellene?
Charlotte Ribeyrol 4. 'A juggler's trick'? Swinburne and journalism 1857
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Laurel Brake Form 5. Metrical discipline: Algernon Swinburne on 'The Flogging Block'
Yopie Prins 6. What goes around: A Century of Roundels
Herbert Tucker 7. Desire lines: Swinburne and lyric crisis
Marion Thain Influence 8. 'Good Satan': the unlikely poetic affinity of Swinburne and Christina Rossetti
Dinah Roe 9. Parleying with Robert Browning: Swinburne's aestheticism, blasphemy, and the dramatic monologue
Sara Lyons 10. Whose muse? Sappho, Swinburne, and Amy Lowell
Sarah Parker 11. Atmosphere and absorption: Swinburne, Eliot, Drinkwater
Catherine Maxwell Index