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Victorian poetry and the culture of the heart /
Kirstie Blair considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, arguing that it highlights anxieties about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. She covers poems by authors such as Tennyson and the Brownings and contextualises them with reference to lesser-known work...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford : Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Oxford English monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Proved on the Pulses: Heart Disease in Victorian Literature and Culture; 2. Shocks and Spasms: Rhythm and the Pulse of Verse; 3. 'Ill-lodged in a woman's breast': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Woman's Heart; 4. 'The old unquiet breast': Matthew Arnold, Heartsickness, and the Culture of Doubt; 5. 'Raving of dead men's dust and beating hearts': Tennyson and the Pathological Heart; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.