Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture Discourse and Ideology |
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| Author:
| Harrison, Antony H. |
| Series title: | Victorian Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-2840-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.50 |
Book Description:
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Focusing on Victorian medievalist discourse, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Christina Rossetti, this examines a range of Victorian poems in order to show the cultural work they accomplish. It examines, among other things, 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.
Focusing on Victorian medievalist discourse, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Christina Rossetti, this examines a range of Victorian poems in order to show the cultural work they accomplish. It examines, among other things, 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.