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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... society's actual homosocial organization , I here examine how the nineteenth - century's application of masturbatory rhetoric to the Romantic poet of genius screened the masturbatory nature of what con- temporary critics theorized as ...
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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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