Lyric Poem and Aestheticism

Forms of Modernity

AvMarion Thain

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Lyric poetry’s response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian ModernityThis study explores lyric poetry’s response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it. Setting the focal aestheticist poetry (c. 1860 to 1914) within much broader historical, theoretical and aesthetic frames, it speaks to those interested in Victorian and modernist literature and culture, but also to a burgeoning audience of the ‘new lyric studies’. The six case studies introduce fresh poetic voices as well as giving innovative analyses of canonical writers (such as D. G. Rossetti, Ezra Pound, A. C. Swinburne). Key FeaturesChallenges and transforms existing narratives of the modern formation of the ‘lyric’ genre through engagement with a body of work that larger-scale genre histories elideOffers innovative analysis of aestheticist poetry from the 1860s to the early years of the twentieth centuryProvides three fresh theoretical frames to examine the relationship between poetry and modernityIncludes case studies featuring a range of literary figures such as D. G. Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Michael Field, Arthur Symons, A. C. Swinburne and Ezra Pound

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-19
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:595 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474415668

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Marion Thain is Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Edinburgh Futures Institute. She publishes primarily on the relationship between culture and technology (understood in the broadest terms) and her current projects sit within the interdisciplinary field of attention studies. See marionthain.org for more details.

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Both densely and deftly argued, The Lyric Poem and Aestheticism is a significant addition to scholarship on late-nineteenth-century poetry and will reward repeated readings not only for the history of aestheticist lyric it traces but also for the thoughtful interpretation of individual poets and poems. It will prove of special interest to students of English aestheticism, the history of the lyric, and the New Formalism.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Lyric, Aestheticism, and the Later Nineteenth century; Part I. Time; 2. Metre and Temporality: Between Hegel and Benjamin; 3. Painting, Music, Touch: D. G. Rossetti’s Ekphrasis and Competing Temporalities; 4. Parnassus and Commodity Time; Part II. Space; 5. Form and Transaction: Lyric Touch; 6. Arthur Symons and Decadent Lyric Phenomenology; 7. ‘Space, the Bound of a Solid’; Alice Meynell and Thomas Hardy; Part III. Subjectivity; 8. Desire Lines: Subjectivity and Collectivity; 9. A. C. Swinburne in the Round: Drama, Personae, and Lyric Subjectivity; 10. Ezra Pound’s Troubadour Subject: Community, Form, and ‘Lyric’ in Early Modernism; Afterword; Bibliography.