Supreme Attachments: Studies in Victorian Love Poetry

by Kerry McSweeney

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 study attempts an integrated account of the three elements, with particular emphasis on the close reading of poems. Chapters are devoted to the distinguishing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840142022
• ISBN13: 9781840142020
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages