The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

This thesis examines the early poetry of Clough, written between 1830 and 1841, in the light of the information about his personal and intellectual life provided by published and unpublished manuscripts, essays, letters and diaries. More specifically, it sets out to determine the degree to which the seeds (thematic and formal) of Clough’s more mature work can be discerned in the earlier. Chapter One discusses the influence of Clough’s childhood reading, and particularly the heroic ideal as encouraged by his mother. It traces the way this developed, particularly under the historical ideas of Thomas Arnold and the Liberal Anglicans, and the fatalistic moral problems this created. Chapter Three considers Clough’s responses to the Oxford Movement. It teases out those elements that attracted Clough and those he came to reject, particularly in the light of Tractarian ideas about reserve, in relation to poetry, truth and personal behaviour. Chapters Two and Four provide chronological, text-by-text accounts of the Rugby and Balliol poems respectively, offering judgments about influences, dates and sources, and interpretations in the light of Chapters One and Three respectively. Chapter Two argues that much of the Rugby poetry reflects an escapist lament for the past and a failure of will to restore it. Chapter Three argues that Clough’s engagement with Tractarian ideas about reserved truth provides the key context for many of these poems. Chapter Five traces the way in which Clough’s early poetics, derived from Wordsworth via Thomas Arnold, were gradually replaced by his more mature, ambiguous approach which also emerged from his encounters with Tractarian reserve. Two appendices collect ten poems and poetic fragments omitted from Mulhauser’s standard edition; three additional variant texts for poems included by Mulhauser; and four previously unpublished letters to Clough from his friend WilliamTylden.

The genesis of Clough's poetry

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Waisted women: reading Victorian slenderness 2. Appetite in Victorian children's literature 3. Hunger and repression in Shirley and Villette 4. Vampirism and the anorexic paradigm 5. Christina Rossetti's sacred hunger Conclusion: the politics of thinness Notes Bibliography Index.

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Victorian literature and the anorexic body

The grammar of expression? Physiognomy and the language of the emotions in nineteenth-century England.

1. Bio-diversity: metabiographical method 2. Styling the self: making missionary travels 3. Death: lamenting Livingstone 4. Empire: imperial afterlives 5. Nation: Scotland's son 6. Fiction: laughing at Livingstone? 7. Revisionism: sins, psyche, sex Index

Livingstone's 'lives': A metabiography of a Victorian icon

The Romantic Ideology

Editors' Preface. Chronology. Notes on Contributors. 1. Victorian Poetics: Carol T. Christ: Varieties and Forms. Epic: Herbert Tucker. Domestic and Idyllic: Linda Peterson. The Lyric: Matthew Rowlinson. The Dramatic Monologue: E. Warwick Slinn. The Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence: Alison Chapman. Elegy: Seamus Perry. Hymn: J. R. Watson. Nonsense: Roderick McGillis. Verse Novel: Dino Felluga. Verse Drama: Adrienne Scullion. Working-Class Poetry: Florence Boos. The Classical Tradition: Richard Jenkyns. Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism: Anthony H. Harrison. Poetry in Translation: J.-A. George. Tractarian Poetry: Stephen Prickett. The Spasmodics: Richard Cronin. The Pre-Raphaelites: David Riede. Poetry of the 1890s: Chris Snodgrass. 2. Production, Distribution and Reception. The Market: Lee Erickson. Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon: Natalie M. Houston. Reviewing Poetry: Joanne Shattock. Poetry and Illustration: Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. 3. Victorian Poetry and Victorian Culture. Nationhood and Empire: Margaret Linley. Poetry in the Four Nations: Matthew Campbell. Poetry and Religion: W. David Shaw. Poetry and Science: Alan Rauch. Landscape and Cityscape: Pauline Fletcher. Vision and Visuality: Catherine Maxwell. Marriage and Gender: Julia F. Saville. Sexuality and Love: John Maynard.

A companion to Victorian poetry

Applying the methodologies of the new historicism, reception theory, and feminist criticism, Harrison provides striking interpretations of Christina Rossetti's poetry. He examines her work in relation to the traditions of medieval and Renaissance love poetry, Romanticism, Tractarianism, and Aestheticism; establishes her place among the pre-Raphaelites; relates her writing to devotional Victorian poetry; and shows how her secular love poetry reflects Dante and Petrarch.Originally published in 1988.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Christina Rossetti in context

Christina Rossetti in Context

This collection of original essays offers a broad and varied discussion of gender issues and treatments of sexuality in Victorian poetry, fiction, and visual arts. Featuring a representative selection of artists poets, novelists, painters, sculptors, playwrights, and dancers these critical analyses explore the ways in which women as artists, as subjects, and as icons function either to challenge and revise or to reify their society's gender ideologies. Enhanced by a diversity of approaches, the collection introduces revisionist readings of well-known literary works and examines interconnections between literature and the visual arts. In the first two parts, which address Victorian poetry and fiction, the readings illuminate previously unexplained features of poems and novels by such writers as Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anne Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Kate Chopin, and Oscar Wilde. The third part of the collection focuses on the themes of gender conventions and subversions that occur in visual representations paintings and cartoons, sculpture and architectural reliefs, drama, opera, and music-hall dance. Rather than presenting literature and art as self-contained, the collection advances the assumption that creative works participate in a larger ideological current of society. Thus, where relevant, the contributors reference politics, economics, science, and other modes of cultural discourse. Such an approach retrieves the historical contexts surrounding the production and reception of the poetry, fiction, and visual arts examined."

Antony H. Harrison

Papers

The Romantic Ideology

A companion to Victorian poetry

Christina Rossetti in context

Christina Rossetti in Context

Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art