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A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word

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A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word book

New Perspectives on the Mature Work

A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word

DOI link for A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word

A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word book

New Perspectives on the Mature Work
Edited ByYisrael Levin
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 16 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565385
Pages 202 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315565385
SubjectsArts, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Levin, Y. (Ed.). (2010). A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565385

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance of the writer's mature work. While Swinburne's scandalous early poetry has received considerable critical attention, the thoughtful, rich, spiritually and politically informed poetry that began to emerge in his thirties has been generally neglected. This volume addresses the need for a fuller understanding of Swinburne's career that includes his fiction, aesthetic ideology, and analyses of Shakespeare and the great French writers. Among the key features of the collection is the contextualizing of Swinburne's work in new contexts such as Victorian mythography, continental aestheticism, positivism, and empiricism. Individual essays examine, among other topics, the dialect poems and Swinburne's position as a regional poet, Swinburne as a transition figure from nineteenth-century aesthetic writing to the professionalized criticism that dominates the twentieth century, Swinburne's participation in the French literary scene, Swinburne's friendships with women writers, and the selections made for anthologies from the nineteenth century to the present. Taken together, the essays offer scholars a richer portrait of Swinburne's importance as a poet, critic, and fiction writer.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

ByYisrael Levin

chapter 1|18 pages

Knowledge and Sense Experience in Swinburne’s Late Poetry

ByStephanie Kuduk Weiner

chapter 2|26 pages

“Quivering Web of Living Thought”: Conceptual Networks in Swinburne’s Songs of the Springtides

chapter 3|18 pages

Solar Erotica: Swinburne’s Myth of Creation

ByYisrael Levin

chapter 4|18 pages

Swinburne and the North

ByBrian Burton

chapter 5|16 pages

Swinburne’s Shakespeare: The Verbal Whirlwind?

ByNick Freeman

chapter 6|20 pages

A Channel Passage: Swinburne and France

ByCharlotte Ribeyrol

chapter 7|22 pages

Swinburne’s Friendships with Women Writers

ByCatherine Maxwell

chapter 8|18 pages

Selecting Swinburne

ByRikky Rooksby
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