Victorian Poets : A Critical Reader.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (393 pages)
- New York Academy of Sciences Series ; v.9 .
- New York Academy of Sciences Series .
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Echo and the Mirror en abīme in Victorian Poetry -- Notes -- 2 The Mirror's Secret -- Notes -- 3 Browning's Anxious Gaze -- Notes -- 4 The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning's Dramatic Monologues -- 1 -- 2 -- Notes -- 5 Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- 6 Matthew Arnold's Gipsies -- The New Historicism -- Intertextual Matters -- Victorian Gipsies and "The Scholar-Gipsy" -- The Acquisition of Cultural Power -- Notes -- 7 A New Radical Aesthetic -- Notes -- 8 Alienated Majesty -- Notes -- 9 Fact and Tact -- Notes -- 10 'A Thousand Times I'd be a Factory Girl' -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 11 'The fruitful feud of hers and his' -- 1 Questioning the Subject: Dramatic Monologue -- 2 Androgyny -- 3 The Disappearance of the Object -- 4 Matthew Arnold -- Notes -- 12 'Eat me, drink me, love me' -- Sisterhoods and the Female Gaze -- Goblin Market and Feminine Guessiness -- Notes -- 13 Browning's Corpses -- Notes -- 14 A E Housman and 'the colour of his hair' -- Notes -- 15 Tennyson's 'Little Hamlet' -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 16 The Disappointment of Christina G Rossetti -- Notes -- 17 Stirring 'a Dust of Figures' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 18 'Love, let us be true to one another' -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- 19 'Poets and lovers evermore' -- What's in a Name? -- 'The Fearful Mastery of Love' -- Fleshly Love and 'A Curve That Is Drawn So Fine' -- Notes -- 20 Swinburne at Work -- Anactoria -- Notes -- 21 Naming and Not Naming -- I. Becoming A Name -- II. Not Naming, But Suggesting -- Notes -- Index.
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English poetry-19th century-History and criticism.