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Victorian Soul-Talk : Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic /

This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the civil rights of disenfranchised s...

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Main Authors: Saville, Julia F., 1951
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Subjects:
Literature
Literature, Modern > 19th century
Poetry
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Poetry and Poetics
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52506-8
Summary: This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the civil rights of disenfranchised souls as Western nations slowly evolved toward modern democracies with shared transnational connections. For in the decades before the new science of psychology transformed the soul into the psyche, poets claimed the spiritual well-being of the body politic as their special moral responsibility. Ex
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XII,265pages).
ISBN: 9783319525068
Index Number: PN760
CLC: I106.2
Contents: Chapter One. Introduction: Poetic Soul-Talk and Civic Virtue -- Chapter Two. Transnational Republican and Feminist: The Political Ethics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning s Soul Poetics -- Chapter Three. Citizen Clough, the Soul s Own Soul, and the Dangers of Complying -- Chapter Four. Talk inside the Soul with Robert Browning s Saviour of Society -- Chapter Five. The Hum of Your Valv d Voice : Walt Whitman s Soul and His Democratic Soul Politic -- Chapter Six. Souls Overcast and The Shadow-less Soul : Swinburne s Elemental Republicanism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

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