Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement

Lesa Scholl is Head of Kathleen Lumley College, University of Adelaide, Australia. Her previous publications include Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman (2011) and Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature (2016).

• Preface Introduction: Containing Hunger and Doctrines of Reserve Chapter One: Economizing Emotion and Moderating Hunger Chapter Two: Looking Outward: The Moment of Lyrical Connection Chapter Three: Embracing the Community as One People Chapter Four: Social Action Demonstrated Conclusion: ‘Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived’: Responding to the Fragmentation of Poetry, Community and the Senses Bibliography Index

[A] striking effort to trace the influence of Tractarianism on Victorian literature in a new way, extending out of theology into the social and political sphere.