Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart

by Kirstie Blair

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, and argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in many major Victorian poems highlights anxieties in this period about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. In the course of the nineteenth century, this study argues, increased doubt about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199273944
• ISBN13: 9780199273942
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"