Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551111357
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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The work of ‘L.E.L.’ began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As a widely envied independent woman in London society, however, she was increasingly the subject of scandalous gossip. Eventually she married the governor of a colony in West Africa, and died under mysterious circumstances soon after arriving in Africa, aged thirty-six. Landon’s life contributed very largely to the nineteenth-century archetype of the poet as a breed apart, heroic but doomed. Her poetry, however, was until very recently largely forgotten; this is the first twentieth-century edition of her poems, which the editors describe as “cold and sentimental at the same time, flat and intense.” In addition to a broad selection of Landon’s poetry and prose, this volume also includes a wide variety of contextual materials and a comprehensive bibliography.
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Author: N. Comet
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137316225
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Author: B.S. Forrest
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Author: Rolf P. Lessenich
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3847006320
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
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Platonic Romanticism had a dark underside from its inception: Romantic Disillusionism, encompassing the Gothic and the new demonic doppelganger. The Classical Tradition's conflict between Plato and Pyrrho, foundationalism and scepticism, optimism and pessimism was thus continued. Lord Byron's was the most listened-to and echoed voice of Romantic Disillusionism in Europe, though by far not the only one. This comparative study of a multiplicity of sceptical English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Czech voices shows how traditional Pyrrhonic arguments were updated to suit the decades of the Romantic Movement, surviving as a subversive countercurrent to later Victorianism and resurging in the literature of the Decadence and Fin de Siècle.
Author: Joseph Edwards Carpenter
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Author: Francis Sylvester Mahony
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Category : Ballads, French
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Author: Paula R. Feldman
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866401
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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This groundbreaking volume not only documents the richness of their literary contributions but changes our thinking about the poetry of the English Romantic period.
Author: Ciaran Cronin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405123184
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts. Explores the relationships between work by different poets Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter
