Barrow's timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow demonstrates that nineteenth-century debates about language played a key role in shaping emergent...

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1. Verfasser:	Barrow, Barbara (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Routledge 2019
Schriftenreihe:	Nineteenth century series Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Schlagworte:	English poetry / 19th century / History and criticism Language and languages in literature Literature and science / Great Britain / History / 19th century Politics and literature / Great Britain / History / 19th century
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Zusammenfassung:	Barrow's timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow demonstrates that nineteenth-century debates about language played a key role in shaping emergent ideas about popular sovereignty. While Victorian scientists studied the origins of speech, the history of dialects, and the barrier between human and animal language, poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Thomas Hardy drew on this research to explore social unrest, the expansion of the electorate, and the ever-widening boundaries of empire. Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry recovers unacknowledged links between poetry, philology, and political culture, and contributes to recent movements in literary studies that combine historicist and formalist approaches
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ISBN:	9780429200922 0429200927 9780429577314 0429577311 9780429575204 0429575203 9780429573095 042957309X