The Lyric Poem and Aestheticism: Forms of Modernity

by Marion Thain

Book Overview

Lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity
This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it. Setting the focal aestheticist poetry (c. 1860 to 1914) within much broader historical, theoretical and aesthetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474431577
• ISBN13: 9781474431576
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"