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Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, Politics (Routledge Critical History of Victorian Poetry)

Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, Politics (Routledge Critical History of Victorian Poetry)

by IsobelArmstrong (Author), Mrs Isobel Armstrong (Author), Isobel Armstrong (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

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In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 560
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 28 Mar 1996
ISBN 10: 0415144256
ISBN 13: 9780415144254

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To my mind Armstrong's book makes its contribution to the study of Victorian Literature in two key ways. I expect I will return often to her very sophistocated consideration of that old chesnut, the Victorian crystallization of lyric subjectivity in a political-poetical dramaturgy of self-spectatorship. And I find an extraordinary resonance in her formulation of the relationship of Victorian poet and modernist critic..
- Regent STudies