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Parting words : Victorian poetry and public address
- Title
- Parting words : Victorian poetry and public address / Justin A. Sider.
- Author
- Sider, Justin, 1982-
- Publication
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xi, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Parting Words examines the relationship between Victorian poetry and public culture through the lens of the valedictory or farewell address, considering works ranging from poems by Byron, Tennyson, and Browning, to essays by Twain and Wilde, to scenes from novels by Dickens and Eliot. Ironically, the Victorian demand for a public poetry was countered by a growing diversification of that public. Although the Victorian era saw the loss of faith in a unitary national public, it asked poetry to address just such a public. It is in tackling this contradiction that the Victorian poets negotiated the reception of their work"--
- Series Statement
- Victorian literature and culture series
- Uniform Title
- Victorian literature and culture series.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-254) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : last things first -- Answer, echoes, dying : Tennyson's farewells -- Dramatic monologue and the ends of character -- Matthew Arnold's accomplished figures -- The consummated spell : Swinburne's style -- Coda : disavowing the Victorians.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1679
- ISBN
- 9780813941820
- 0813941822
- LCCN
- 2018041478
- OCLC
- 1037029451
- Author
- Sider, Justin, 1982- author.
- Title
- Parting words : Victorian poetry and public address / Justin A. Sider.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Victorian literature and culture seriesVictorian literature and culture series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-254) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1679