Mark Sandy

The Persistence of Beauty (eBook, PDF)

Victorians to Moderns

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This significant collection of essays examines the cultural, literary, philosophical and historical representation of beauty in British, Irish and American literature. Contributors use the works of Charles Dickens, T S Eliot, W H Auden and Stephen Spender among others to explore the role of beauty and its wider implications in art and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317303824
• Artikelnr.: 43975730

Autorenporträt

Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at Durham University, UK. His books include The Human Mind's Imaginings:? Conflict and Achievement in Shelley's Poetry (1989) and, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013), as well as three volumes of poetry, the last of which was Gangs of Shadow (2014). Mark Sandy is Reader in English Studies at Durham University, UK. He is author of Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (2013) and Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley: Nietzschean Subjectivity and Genre (2005). Sarah Wootton is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Durham University, UK. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature and the visual arts, and is the author of Consuming Keats: Nineteenth-Century Representations in Art and Literature (2006) and Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1 Female Beauty and Portraits of Self-Effacement in Charlotte BrontÃ''s Jane Eyre
Sarah Wootton; Chapter 2 Dickens and the Line of Beauty
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst; Chapter 3 'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial
Simon J. James; Chapter 4 The Beauties of T. S. Eliot
Seamus Perry; Chapter 5 'The Enigmatical Beauty of Each Beautiful Enigma': The Persistence of Beauty and Death in the Poetics of Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens
Mark Sandy; Chapter 6 W. H. Auden: The Loveliness that is the Case
Tony Sharpe; Chapter 7 Something in the Works: Frost
Bishop and the Idea of Beauty
Angela Leighton; Chapter 8 The Difficulty of Beauty: Hopkins
Yeats
Hart Crane
Spender
Michael O'Neill; Chapter 9 'Beauty in Trouble': Robert Graves and Louis Macneice
Fran Brearton; Chapter 10 Beauty is Death
Timothy Morton;