Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 288 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780814271988
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0814271987
Content:
"Developing focused analyses of generic and discursive meanings, individual chapters examine the classed politics of crime and punishment in the broadside ballad, the epistemological tensions of homicidal lunacy and criminal responsibility in the dramatic monologue, and the legal and ideological frictions of domestic violence in the verse novel and verse drama. Their juxtaposition of the rhymes of anonymous street balladeers, the underexamined verse of "minor" poets, and the familiar poems of canonical figures suggests the interactive and intertextual relationships informing poetic agendas and political arguments
Content:
As it simultaneously reconsiders the institutional and ideological status of murder and the aesthetic and political interests of poetry, Crime in Verse offers new ways of thinking about Victorian poetry's contents and contexts."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index
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Murder, execution, and the criminal classes -- The murderous subject and the criminal sublime -- "Household law" and the domestication of murder.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814210857
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814210856
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814291641
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814291643
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0978814210857
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe O'Brien, Ellen L., 1970- Crime in verse Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2008
Language:
English
