Kerry Mcsweeney: 3 books
What's the Import?
Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2007
Kerry McSweeney critiques such readings of Romantic, Victorian, and 19th-century American poems. In What's the Import? he proposes and exemplifies an aesthetic or intrinsic critical model rooted in literary-historical contextualization that considers the determination of meanings to be only one of the...
by Kerry McSweeney
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is only in the last few decades that the novel has been widely recognised as George Eliot’s finest work, one of the greatest English novels, and one of the classic texts...
Supreme Attachments
Studies in Victorian Love Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The Victorian poetry of sexual love between men and women has not been as fully studied as other components of the imaginative literature of the period, and some of the attention it has received has been more concerned with the society and ideology of the age than with the poetry or the love. This...