Algernon Charles Swinburne

Unofficial Laureate

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Av Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista

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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. Now available in paperback, 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-02-26
Mått138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719099960

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Introduction – Catherine Maxwell and Stefano EvangelistaI. Cultural discourse1. Swinburne’s French voice: cosmopolitanism and cultural mediation in aesthetic criticism – Stefano Evangelista2. Swinburne’s swimmers: from insular peace to the Anglo-Boer War – Julia F. Saville 3. Swinburne: a nineteenth-century Hellene? – Charlotte Ribeyrol4. ‘A juggler’s trick’? Swinburne and journalism 1857–75 – Laurel BrakeII. Form 5. Metrical discipline: Algernon Swinburne on ‘The Flogging-Block’ – Yopie Prins6. What goes around: Swinburne's A Century of Roundels – Herbert Tucker7. Desire lines: Swinburne and lyric crisis – Marion Thain III. Influence 8. ‘Good Satan’: the unlikely poetic affinity of Swinburne and Christina Rossetti – Dinah Roe9. Parleying with Robert Browning: Swinburne’s aestheticism, blasphemy, and the dramatic monologue – Sara Lyons10. Whose muse? Sappho, Swinburne, and Amy Lowell – Sarah Parker11. Atmosphere and absorption: Swinburne, Eliot, Drinkwater – Catherine MaxwellIndex

Candid, ambitious and sympathetic, this is a confident and often eloquent volume on a writer who keeps resisting the explanations that we are told best account for him. Immaculately edited, it earns its place among the best of modern writing in Algernon Charles Swinburne - poet and enigma.Francis O'Gorman, Times Literary Supplement, Mischief and other minds, 10/01/2014|It encourages those interested in Swinburne's work to read him in many different ways and take part in the effort of mapping his vast poetic and critical corpus., Yisrael Levin, English Literature in Transition 1880 - 1920, 2014'The chapters provide an enriching blend of perspectives that, to varying degrees, pivot on the ways ‘sexuality itself might help shape, inform, or condition style, poetics, and other aspects of literary practice’. The essays collected in Unofficial Laureate… will be of immense benefit to students, experts, and dilettantes of Swinburne. They are set to cast a long shadow, to galvanize and update Swinburne studies, reigniting the slow-burning interest in this underrated Victorian poet and his work.'Kostas Boyiopoulos, Durham University