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Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism

Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism

Keirstead, Christopher M.

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0814256554
ISBN13: 9780814256558
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Oct 9 2020
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The scope and complexity of the encounter with Europe in Victorian poetry remains largely underappreciated despite recent critical attention to the genre's global and transnational contexts. Providing much more than colorful settings or a convenient place of self-exile from England, Europe-as destination and idea-formed the basis of a dynamic, evolving form of critical cosmopolitanism much in tune with attempts to theorize the concept today. Christopher M. Keirstead's Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism synthesizes the complex relationship between several notable Victorian poets, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, and A. C. Swinburne, and their respective attitudes toward Europe as a cosmopolitan whole. Examining their international relationships and experiences, the monograph explores the ways in which these poets worked to reconcile their emotional and intellectual affinity for world citizenship with their British identity.

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