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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... positions figured for poetry in Scott and Byron are , in fact , strictly homologous : both serve , in the end , to push the poetic enterprise to the margins of the social body , be it as cure or as curse , thus opening the way for the ...
... positions figured for poetry in Scott and Byron are , in fact , strictly homologous : both serve , in the end , to push the poetic enterprise to the margins of the social body , be it as cure or as curse , thus opening the way for the ...
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... position from which poetry has sought to extricate itself ever since . One symptom of poetry's marginalization is that criticism no longer takes seriously the poetic form that throughout the nineteenth century captured the ear of a mass ...
... position from which poetry has sought to extricate itself ever since . One symptom of poetry's marginalization is that criticism no longer takes seriously the poetic form that throughout the nineteenth century captured the ear of a mass ...
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... position to diagnose both the social body and its literally nerve - wracking market pursuits . As we will see , it was this earlier model of specialization that inspired the literary specialist to adopt a similar model of ...
... position to diagnose both the social body and its literally nerve - wracking market pursuits . As we will see , it was this earlier model of specialization that inspired the literary specialist to adopt a similar model of ...
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... position from which people from different classes could question the values and ideological fantasies propagated by the dominant ideologies of his time . The political ramifications of this maneuver were felt throughout the nine- teenth ...
... position from which people from different classes could question the values and ideological fantasies propagated by the dominant ideologies of his time . The political ramifications of this maneuver were felt throughout the nine- teenth ...
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... position with regard to the legacy of Romanticism . and the romance form . The Idylls represents canny Victorian negotiation of that legacy . The work became such a phenomenal success in the 1860s because it attempted to address the ...
... position with regard to the legacy of Romanticism . and the romance form . The Idylls represents canny Victorian negotiation of that legacy . The work became such a phenomenal success in the 1860s because it attempted to address the ...
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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