Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought
Forms of Freedom
Authors: Barton, Anna
Free Preview- Studies the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy.
- Discusses nineteenth-century poets as readers of philosophy and explore the peculiar capacity of poetry to act as a medium for liberal thought and expression
- Offers an original and significant contribution to the field of nineteenth-century studies in its in-depth study of liberalism’s forming influence on a range of poets from the Romantic period to the last decades of the century
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- About this book
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This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy. It carries out a reassessment of the aesthetic possibilities of liberalism and it considers the variety of ways that poetry by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold and Algernon Charles Swinburne responds to and participates in urgent philosophical, social and political debates about liberty and the rule of law. It provides an account of poetry’s intervention into four different sites where liberalism has a stake: the self, the university, married life and the nation state and it seeks to assert the peculiar capacity of poetry to articulate liberal concerns, proposing poetic language as a means of liberal enquiry.
- About the authors
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Anna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.
- Reviews
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“Approach to liberalism constitutes at once the book’s main liability and its greatest strength. … nineteenth-century poets engaged with the progressive social thought of their day not only when they addressed it directly but in all their poems, even the most apparently private. Barton’s often revelatory new formalist analyses compellingly demonstrate the real intellectual work that poetry can perform.” (Erik Gray, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 70 (293), February, 2019)
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: Locke in Pentameters
Pages 1-23
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The Liberal Self: Wordsworth and Barrett Browning
Pages 25-81
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Liberal Education: Wordsworth, Clough and Arnold
Pages 83-128
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Liberalism in Love: Barrett Browning, Browning and Meredith
Pages 129-178
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Liberal Republicanism: Clough, Barrett Browning and Swinburne
Pages 179-231
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought
- Book Subtitle
- Forms of Freedom
- Authors
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- Anna Barton
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-49488-7
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-49488-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-49487-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 257
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