Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780719099960)

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), dramatist, novelist and critic, was late Victorian England's unofficial Poet Laureate. Swinburne was admired by his contemporaries for his technical brilliance, his facility with classical and medieval forms, and his courage in expressing his sensual, erotic imagination. He was one of the most important Victorian poets, the founding figure for British aestheticism, and the dominant influence for fin-de-si鐵le and many modernist poets. Now available in paperback, this collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of this fascinating and complex figure. It situates him in the light of current critical work on cosmopolitanism, politics, form, Victorian Hellenism, gender and sexuality, the arts, and aestheticism and its contested relation to literary modernism. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne's work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate.

Author: Catherine Maxwell
ISBN-10: 071909996X
ISBN-13: 9780719099960
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/26/2016
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2016