Victorian poetry as cultural critique : the politics of performative language

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

Author/creator	Slinn, E. Warwick, 1943-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Description	x, 217 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index.
LCCN	2002154238
ISBN	081392166X (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR595.H5 S58 2003	✔ Available	Place Hold