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Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion
Kirstie Blair
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Description for Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion
This study explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. It discusses major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the Brownings, Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy - and also argues that their work was influenced by a host of minor and less studied writers. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; HRCL; HRCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. She argues that poetry made significant contributions to these debates, not least through its formal structures. By assessing the discourses of church architecture and liturgy in the first half of the book, Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion demonstrates that Victorian poets both reflected on and affected ecclesiastical practices. The second half of the book focuses on particular poets and poems, including Browning's Christmas-Eve and Tennyson's In Memoriam, to show how High Anglican ... Read more
Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. She argues that poetry made significant contributions to these debates, not least through its formal structures. By assessing the discourses of church architecture and liturgy in the first half of the book, Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion demonstrates that Victorian poets both reflected on and affected ecclesiastical practices. The second half of the book focuses on particular poets and poems, including Browning's Christmas-Eve and Tennyson's In Memoriam, to show how High Anglican ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199644506
SKU
V9780199644506
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About Kirstie Blair
Kirstie Blair is a lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Her primary research interests lie in Victorian literature, particularly poetry and poetic form, working-class poetry and poetics, literature and religion, and literature and medicine. She has published on Tennyson, George Eliot, Vita Sackville-West, and Virginia Woolf, among others. She has edited a collection of essays on John Keble (John Keble ... Read more
Reviews for Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion
an impressively detailed book. Blair is at her best when subtly tweaking a line of verse ... to bring out its latenet meanings.
Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement
Blairs project excels in scope and originality.
Denny Kinlaw, Transpositions
Blair has written a subtle and fascinating study that should be of interest as much to historians as ... Read more
Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement
Blairs project excels in scope and originality.
Denny Kinlaw, Transpositions
Blair has written a subtle and fascinating study that should be of interest as much to historians as ... Read more