Overview
Provides a careful examination of the lyric sequence
Illuminates poetry’s impact on individual relationships and the institution of marriage
Considers political, cultural, and historical influences
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence investigates the ways in which some of our best poets writing in English have used poetic sequences to capture the lived experience of marriage. Beginning in 1862 with George Meredith’s Modern Love, Jane Hedley’s study utilizes the rubrics of temporality, dialogue, and triangulation to bring a deeply rooted and vitally interesting poetic genre into focus. Its twentieth- and twenty-first-century practitioners have included Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Lowell, Rita Dove, Eavan Boland, Louise Glück, Anne Carson, Ted Hughes, Claudia Emerson, Rachel Zucker, and Sharon Olds. In their poetic sequences the flourishing or failure of a particular marriage is always at stake, but as that relationship plays out over time, each sequence also speaks to larger questions: why we marry, what a marriage is, what our collective stake is in other people’s marriages. In the book’s final chapter gay marriage presents a fresh testing ground for these questions, in light of the US Supreme Court’s affirmation of same-sex marriage.
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About the author
Jane Hedley is Stapleton Emeritus Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College, USA. She has published extensively on both Renaissance and contemporary lyric poetry, with a particular emphasis on gender politics, poetic figuration, and the social implications of poetic performance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence
Authors: Jane Hedley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78157-0
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) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78156-3Published: 15 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08628-2Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78157-0Published: 04 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 239
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature