The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness"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 imaginative revisionist study suggests a new interpretative framework for Victorian men's poetry, while providing detailed and extensive re-readings of many major poems The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Contents
Orpheus Sappho and the feminised | 11 |
Milton and Shelley | 47 |
from Sappho to Satan | 88 |
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| Title | The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness |
| Authors | Catherine Maxwell, Professor of Victorian Literature Catherine Maxwell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0719057523, 9780719057526 |
| Length | 279 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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