Algernon Charles Swinburne : unofficial laureate
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Algernon Charles Swinburne : unofficial laureate
Manchester University Press, 2016, c2013
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"First published by Manchester University Press in hardback 2013, this edition first published 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), dramatist, novelist and critic, was late Victorian England's unofficial Poet Laureate. Swinburne was admired by his contemporaries for his technical brilliance, his facility with classical and medieval forms, and his courage in expressing his sensual, erotic imagination. He was one of the most important Victorian poets, the founding figure for British aestheticism, and the dominant influence for fin-de-siecle and many modernist poets. Now available in paperback, this collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of this fascinating and complex figure. It situates him in the light of current critical work on cosmopolitanism, politics, form, Victorian Hellenism, gender and sexuality, the arts, and aestheticism and its contested relation to literary modernism. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne's work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction - Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista
I. Cultural discourse
1. Swinburne's French voice: cosmopolitanism and cultural mediation in aesthetic criticism - Stefano Evangelista
2. Swinburne's swimmers: from insular peace to the Anglo-Boer War - Julia F. Saville
3. Swinburne: a nineteenth-century Hellene? - Charlotte Ribeyrol
4. 'A juggler's trick'? Swinburne and journalism 1857-75 - Laurel Brake
II. Form
5. Metrical discipline: Algernon Swinburne on 'The Flogging-Block' - Yopie Prins
6. What goes around: Swinburne's A Century of Roundels - Herbert Tucker
7. Desire lines: Swinburne and lyric crisis - Marion Thain
III. Influence
8. 'Good Satan': the unlikely poetic affinity of Swinburne and Christina Rossetti - Dinah Roe
9. Parleying with Robert Browning: Swinburne's aestheticism, blasphemy, and the dramatic monologue - Sara Lyons
10. Whose muse? Sappho, Swinburne, and Amy Lowell - Sarah Parker
11. Atmosphere and absorption: Swinburne, Eliot, Drinkwater - Catherine Maxwell
Index -- .
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