ABSTRACT
In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I CONSERVATIVE AND BENTHAMITE AESTHETICS OF THE AVANT-GARDE
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Part II MID-CENTURY: EUROPEAN REVOLUTION AND CRIMEAN WAR
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Part III ANOTHER CULTURE? ANOTHER POETICS?
