TY  - BOOK
AU  - Franco Marucci
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - History of English Literature, Volume 4
T2  - Early and Mid-Victorian Prose and Poetry, 1832–1870
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1144406
N2  - History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical, historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 4 begins with a focus on the pivotal function of religion in the mid-nineteenth century and explores the resulting oscillation between Romantic escape, sceptical solipsism and social responsibility in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Browning, Clough and Matthew Arnold. The aegis of religion was only broken by the advent of Pre-Raphaelitism. This trajectory is reflected in a series of well-known enigmatic masterworks by the Rossettis.
KW  - English Literature, Poetry, Prose, Victorian
LA  - English
ER  -