Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837û1909), dramatist, novelist and critic, was late Victorian EnglandÆs 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?cle 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 SwinburneÆs work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate.

• | Author: Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 26, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 071909996X
• | ISBN-13: 9780719099960