Description: Victorian Poetry And the Culture of the Heart, Hardcover by Blair, Kirstie, ISBN 0199273944, ISBN-13 9780199273942, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, and argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in many major Victorian poems highlights anxieties in this period about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. In the course of the nineteenth century, this study argues, increased doubt about the validity of feeling led to the depiction of the literary heart as alienated, distant, outside the control of mind and will. This coincided with a notable rise in medical literature specifically concerned with the pathological heart, and with the development of new techniques and instruments of investigation such as the stethoscope. As poets feared for the health of their own hearts, their poetry embodies concerns about a widespread culture of heartsickness in both form and content. In addition, concerns about the heart's status and actions reflect upon questions of religious faith and doubt, and feed into issues of gender and nationalism. This book argues that it is vital to understand how this wider culture of the heart informed poetry and was in turn influenced by poetic constructs. Individual chapters on Barrett Browning, Arnold, and Tennyson explore the vital presence of the heart in major works by these poets--including, Aurora Leigh, "Empedocles on Etna," In Memoriam, and Maud--while the wide-ranging opening chapters present an argument for the mutual influence of poetry and physiology in the period and trace the development of new theories of rhythm as organic and affective.
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Book Title: Victorian Poetry And the Culture of the Heart
Number of Pages: 284 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2006
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Author: Kirstie Blair
Item Length: 8.8 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 5.7 in
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Format: Hardcover
