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Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century - Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century - Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Beginning with John Keats and tracing a line of influence through
Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Betsy Tontiplaphol
draws on established narratives of the nineteenth century's social
and literary developments to describe the relationship between
poetics and luxury in an age when imperial trade and domestic
consumerism reached a fevered pitch. The "luscious poem," as
Tontiplaphol defines it, is a subset of the luxurious, a category
that suggests richness in combination with enclosure and intimacy.
For Keats, Tontiplaphol suggests, the psychological virtues of
luscious experience generated a new poetics, one that combined his
Romantic predecessors' sense of the ameliorative power of poetry
with his own revaluation of space, both physical and prosodic. Her
approach blends cultural context with close attention to the formal
and affective qualities of poetry as she describes the efforts of
Keats and his equally"though differently"anxious Victorian
inheritors to develop textual spaces as luscious as the ones their
language describes. For all three poets, that effort entailed
rediscovering and reinterpreting the list, or catalogue, and each
chapter's textual and formal analyses are offered in counterpoint
to careful examination of the century's luscious materialities. Her
book is at once a study of influence, a socio-historical critique,
and a form-focused assessment of three century-defining voices.
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