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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... mass market and influenced opposing political groups but also invited their own marginalization by playing into a medical rhetoric about poetical geniuses that would eventually ensure their dismissal by Victorian critics . Following ...
... mass market and influenced opposing political groups but also invited their own marginalization by playing into a medical rhetoric about poetical geniuses that would eventually ensure their dismissal by Victorian critics . Following ...
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... mass audience : the verse romance . The prose romance has recently begun to ... market dynamics of the Romantic period and despite the crucial role of ... mass market , speaking to readers across class lines and ideological perspectives ...
... mass audience : the verse romance . The prose romance has recently begun to ... market dynamics of the Romantic period and despite the crucial role of ... mass market , speaking to readers across class lines and ideological perspectives ...
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... mass market and mass readership , but it also helps to explain how it was that the romance was gradually dismissed as a serious generic form over the course of that century . How was it that the romantic and particularly the romance ...
... mass market and mass readership , but it also helps to explain how it was that the romance was gradually dismissed as a serious generic form over the course of that century . How was it that the romantic and particularly the romance ...
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... mass - market capitalism and bourgeois domes- ticity ( those hegemonic versions of " truth or right " ) . On the other hand , the book illustrates how various late Romantic and Victorian critics sought to neutralize the most radical ...
... mass - market capitalism and bourgeois domes- ticity ( those hegemonic versions of " truth or right " ) . On the other hand , the book illustrates how various late Romantic and Victorian critics sought to neutralize the most radical ...
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... mass market , against which medi- cine and literature sought to establish their own cultural capital . The chapter concentrates on the ways that the emergent science of " nerves " at first con- tributed to the general pathologization of ...
... mass market , against which medi- cine and literature sought to establish their own cultural capital . The chapter concentrates on the ways that the emergent science of " nerves " at first con- tributed to the general pathologization of ...
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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