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Author:

Slinn, E. Warwick, 1943-

Title:

Victorian poetry as cultural critique : the politics of performative language / E. Warwick Slinn.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

x, 217 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Political poetry, English--History and criticism.
Social problems in literature.
Culture in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index.

Contents:

Poetry and culture : performativity and critique -- Browning's Bishop conceives a tomb : cultural ordering as cultural critique -- The mark as matrix : subject(ion) and agency in Barrett Browning's "The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point" -- Clough's resisted performative : material act and bacchanalian revel in Dipsychus -- Prostitution, representation, and desire : the politics of male liberalism in D. G. Rossetti's "Jenny" -- Webster's castaway courtesan : living on the cultural margin -- Afterword : form as process.

ISBN:

9780813921662 (cloth : alk. paper)
081392166X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51053764

LCCN:

2002154238

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)