Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and IdeologyWith the publication of his ambitious new work Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture, Antony H. Harrison continues his exploration of poetry as a significant force in the construction of English culture from 1837-1900. In chapters focusing on Victorian medievalist discourse, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Christina Rossetti, Harrison examines a range of Victorian poems in order to show the cultural work they accomplish. He illuminates, for example, such culturally prominent Victorian mythologies as the exaltation of motherhood, the Romanic appropriation of transcendent art, and the idealization of the gypsy as a culturally alien, exotic Other. His investigation of the ways in which the authors intervene in the discourses that articulate such mythologies and thereby accrue cultural power--along with his analysis of what constitutes "cultural power"--are original contributions to the field of Victorian studies. "The power of Victorian poetry by midcentury was enhanced by the institutionalization of particular channels through which it circulated," Harrison writes. "poetry was 'consumed' in more varied forms than was other literature." Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture has implications for both cultural studies and the study of literature outside the Victorian period. |
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... ROSSETTI JOHN STUART MILL MATTHEW ARNOLD ALFRED , LOR JOHN STUART MILL TENNYSON ALGERNON TE GABRIEL RO HANS ROBER ROSSETTI WILLIAM MO IZABETH BARRETT TERRY EAGLE MICHEL FOUCAULT Discourse and Ideology ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBUR HAROLD ...
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... Rossetti , Christina Georgina , 1830-1894 - Political and social views . 8. Great Britain - History - Victoria , 1837-1901 . 9. Medievalism— England - History - 19th century . 10. Discourse analysis , Literary . I. Title . II . Series ...
... Matthew Arnold's Gipsies : Ideology and the Discourse of the Other 102 V. Christina Rossetti : Renunciation as Intervention Afterword Notes Bibliography Index 125 165 169 175 183 Acknowledgments I AM GRATEFUL TO a number of colleagues who.
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Contents
Medievalist Discourse and the Ideologies | 17 |
Poetry of Power and Victorian | 44 |
Weakness like omnipotence | 71 |
Ideology and the Discourse | 102 |
Renunciation as Intervention | 125 |
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