Victorian Soul-Talk: Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic
Author:   Julia F. Saville
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
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Pages:   307
Publication Date:   08 May 2018
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Victorian Soul-Talk: Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic


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Author:   Julia F. Saville
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319849188


ISBN 10:   3319849182
Pages:   307
Publication Date:   08 May 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter One. Introduction: Poetic Soul-Talk and Civic Virtue.- Chapter Two. Transnational Republican and Feminist: The Political Ethics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Soul Poetics.- Chapter Three. “Citizen Clough,” the “Soul’s Own Soul,” and the Dangers of Complying.- Chapter Four. “Talk inside the Soul” with Robert Browning’s “Saviour of Society”.- Chapter Five. “The Hum of Your Valvèd Voice”: Walt Whitman’s Soul and His Democratic Soul Politic.- Chapter Six. “Souls Overcast” and “The Shadow-less Soul”: Swinburne’s Elemental Republicanism.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.

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The book is not only an exposition of political discourse but concurrently an analysis of form, a rich and ambitious undertaking. (Isobel Armstrong, Modern Philology, Vol. 117 (1), May, 2019)


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Julia F. Saville was educated at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and Stanford University, USA, and is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the author of A Queer Chivalry: the Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2000). 

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