The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of GeniusSUNY Press, 2005/01/01 - 208 ページ Once the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, Poetry makes nothing happen. In The Perversity of Poetry, Dino Franco Felluga explores the cultural background of poetry s marginalization by examining nineteenth-century reactions to Romantic poetry and ideology. Focusing on the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as periodical reviews, student manuals, and contemporary medical journals, the book details the period s two contending (and equally outrageous) claims regarding poetry. Scott s poetry, on the one hand, was continually represented as a panacea for a modern world overtaken by new principles of utilitarianism, capitalism, industrialism, and democracy. Byron s, by contrast, was represented either as a cancer in the heart of the social order or as a contagious pandemic leading to various pathological symptoms. The book concludes with a coda on Alfred Lord Tennyson, which illustrates how the Victorian reception of Scott and Byron affected the most popular poetic genius of midcentury. Ultimately, The Perversity of Poetry uncovers how the shift to a rhetoric of health allowed critics to oppose what they perceived as a potent and potentially dangerous influence on the age, the very thing that would over the course of the century be marginalized into such obscurity: poetry, thanks to its perverse insistence on making something happen. |
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... concerns in this book : For poetry makes nothing happen : it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper , flows on south From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs . ( 36-39 ) What this study ...
... concerns in this book : For poetry makes nothing happen : it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper , flows on south From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs . ( 36-39 ) What this study ...
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... concerns of the quotidian , a characterization that was often connected to a rhetoric of panacea , or he recast poetry as variously perverse , leading to a host of diseases threatening the body politic . The re- sponse to Scott's poetry ...
... concerns of the quotidian , a characterization that was often connected to a rhetoric of panacea , or he recast poetry as variously perverse , leading to a host of diseases threatening the body politic . The re- sponse to Scott's poetry ...
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... concerned itself with a number of issues that seem to have little to do with our contem- porary notions of " romance " : fantasies of empire , allegories of textual produc- tion , forms of ideological critique , theories of justice ...
... concerned itself with a number of issues that seem to have little to do with our contem- porary notions of " romance " : fantasies of empire , allegories of textual produc- tion , forms of ideological critique , theories of justice ...
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... concern myself with the term that McKeon himself sometimes reduces into an overly simple abstraction in his study , what he dubs " romance idealism . " As I will show , a considerable ideological complexity is hidden by our tendency to ...
... concern myself with the term that McKeon himself sometimes reduces into an overly simple abstraction in his study , what he dubs " romance idealism . " As I will show , a considerable ideological complexity is hidden by our tendency to ...
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... argument will therefore at times proceed by analogy . In particular , the book will concern itself with the creation of a particular and pervasive trope : the " nervous temperament . " The effect THE PERVERSITY OF POETRY.
... argument will therefore at times proceed by analogy . In particular , the book will concern itself with the creation of a particular and pervasive trope : the " nervous temperament . " The effect THE PERVERSITY OF POETRY.
目次
Diagnosing Genius The Tropic Body and the constitution of the Man of Letters | 13 |
Romanticisms Last Minstrel Scott Ideological Fetishes and the Technology of the Book | 33 |
Byrons Spectropoetics and Revolution | 71 |
Poetry and Pathology | 105 |
Tennysons Idylls Pure Poetry and the Market | 143 |
Notes | 163 |
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