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Algernon Charles Swinburne


Algernon Charles Swinburne

Unofficial Laureate

von: Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista

25,99 €

Verlag: Manchester University Press
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 03.10.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781526130488
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 272

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), dramatist, novelist and critic, was late Victorian England’s unofficial Poet Laureate. Swinburne was admired by his contemporaries for his technical brilliance, his facility with classical and medieval forms, and his courage in expressing his sensual, erotic imagination. He was one of the most important Victorian poets, the founding figure for British aestheticism, and the dominant influence for fin-de-siècle and many modernist poets. This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of this fascinating and complex figure. It situates him in the light of current critical work on cosmopolitanism, politics, form, Victorian Hellenism, gender and sexuality, the arts, and aestheticism and its contested relation to literary modernism. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate.
Students and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry.
<p>Introduction – Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista<br>Cultural Discourse<br>1. Swinburne’s French voice: cosmopolitanism and cultural mediation in aesthetic criticism – Stefano Evangelista <br>2. Swinburne’s swimmers: from insular peace to the Anglo-Boer War – Julia F. Saville <br>3. Swinburne: a nineteenth-century Hellene? – Charlotte Ribeyrol <br>4. ‘A juggler’s trick’? Swinburne and journalism 1857–75 – Laurel Brake<br>Form <br>5. Metrical discipline: Algernon Swinburne on ‘The Flogging Block’ – Yopie Prins<br>6. What goes around: A Century of Roundels – Herbert Tucker <br>7. Desire lines: Swinburne and lyric crisis – Marion Thain <br>Influence <br>8. ‘Good Satan’: the unlikely poetic affinity of Swinburne and Christina Rossetti – Dinah Roe<br>9. Parleying with Robert Browning: Swinburne’s aestheticism, blasphemy, and the dramatic monologue – Sara Lyons <br>10. Whose muse? Sappho, Swinburne, and Amy Lowell – Sarah Parker <br>11. Atmosphere and absorption: Swinburne, Eliot, Drinkwater – Catherine Maxwell<br>Index</p>
Catherine Maxwell is Professor of Victorian Literature at Queen Mary, University of London|Stefano Evangelista is Fellow and Tutor in English at Trinity College, University of Oxford.
<p>Algernon CharlesSwinburne (1837–1909), dramatist, novelist, and critic, was late Victorian England’s unofficial Poet Laureate. Swinburne was admired by his contemporaries for his technical brilliance, his facility with classical and medieval forms, and his courage in expressing his sensual, erotic imagination. His first and best-known verse collection, Poems and Ballads (1866), notable for its consummate craftsmanship and provocative subject matter, created an unrivalled sensation. His radical republican views as expressed in his later political collection Songs before Sunrise (1871) reinforced his reputation as a controversial figure. He was immensely important in his own day but, like several of his contemporaries, suffered neglect and misrepresentation during the first half of the twentieth century. Now, however, Swinburne is acknowledged to be one of the most important Victorian poets, the founding figure for British aestheticism, and the dominant influence for many fin-de-siècle and modernist poets. Forging a vital link between French and English literary culture, he was responsible for promoting avant-garde poets such as Gautier and Baudelaire who would have considerable impact on English decadent writers. <br><br>This collection of eleven new essays offers a thorough revaluation of this fascinating and complex figure. It situates him in the light of current critical work on cosmopolitanism, politics, form, Victorian Hellenism, gender and sexuality, the arts, and aestheticism and its contested relation to literary modernism.</p>

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