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Poetry, Poetics and Politics
In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as ‘a moralised form ...
Poetry, Poets and Politics
In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a m...
Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourg...
This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has no...
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Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880
Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth...
First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early...
Sets Jane Austen's novel in the context of the Napoleonic wars, with the melancholia and sensibility that they brought to 18th-century society, the so...
Reviews of Poetry, 1830-1870
In the years covered by this volume high Victorian poetry reached it's prolific peak and stimulated a corresponding abundance of critical comment. As ...
New Perspectives
Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By inte...
Armstrong proposes a theory of the language of 19th- century poetry derived from Romantic philosophy in this highly original and important new study. ...
Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy
"Essays, short stories and poems by eminent creative writers, critics and scholars from three continents celebrate the literary achievements of Barbar...
First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essaysaoffering a are-evaluation ofaVictorian poetry in the light of earl...