Overview
- Argues that certain poets understood the rhetorical power of poetic soul-talk for challenging reductive reasoning, empty abstractions, and the depersonalizing effects of an increasingly mechanized, bureaucratized, and commercializing society
- Addresses the lack of attention given to “soul” and the poetic “soul-talk” of democratically minded poets that co-existed with it
- Looks at work by poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Walt Whitman
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
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Book Title: Victorian Soul-Talk
Book Subtitle: Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic
Authors: Julia F. Saville
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52506-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52505-1Published: 30 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84918-8Published: 08 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52506-8Published: 19 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 307