Parting Words : Victorian Poetry and Public Address /
"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. Ironical...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2018.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.