Victorian Soul-Talk: Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic by Julia F. Saville

By Julia F. Saville

This e-book explores the many years among the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 whilst British poets equivalent to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, besides their transatlantic modern Walt Whitman, defended the civil rights of disenfranchised souls as Western countries slowly developed towards smooth democracies with shared transnational connections. For within the many years sooner than the recent technological know-how of psychology reworked the soul into the psyche, poets claimed the non secular future health of the physique politic as their particular ethical accountability. Exploiting the wealthy aesthetic capability of language, they created poetry with remarkable sensory entice make their readers event the complicated results of political judgements on public spirit.  inside of contexts akin to Risorgimento Italy, Civil struggle the US, and moment Empire France, those poets spoke from their souls to the souls in their readers to bare insights that eluded the prosaic varieties of fiction, essay, and journalism.

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