
The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Bearing Blindness
Catherine Maxwell(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 1. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7190-8084-5 (ISBN)
Description
This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition.
The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him.
This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry. -- .
The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him.
This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry. -- .
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
442 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-8084-5 (9780719080845)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Catherine Maxwell is Reader in Victorian Literature at Queen Mary, University of London -- .
Content
Introduction
1. The changes of Philomel: Orpheus, Sappho and the feminised male poet
2. The unsculptured image: Milton and Shelley
3. Tennyson's sublime: from Sappho to Satan
4. Browning: when Power comes full in play
5. Beneath the woman's and the water's kiss: Swinburne's metamorphoses
Bibliography -- .
1. The changes of Philomel: Orpheus, Sappho and the feminised male poet
2. The unsculptured image: Milton and Shelley
3. Tennyson's sublime: from Sappho to Satan
4. Browning: when Power comes full in play
5. Beneath the woman's and the water's kiss: Swinburne's metamorphoses
Bibliography -- .