Victorian Poetry
Michael Auer
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Michel Foucault once said that we are all still Victorians. Indeed, the nineteenth century witnessed social and political developments that continue to inform the present moment and the struggles we might (and possibly ought to) have within this present moment. The poetry of the Victorian age probes these developments, which include nationalism, globalization, and Empire, social recognition and political participation, sex and gender relations as well as historicism and the aestheticization of the world and world history, all the while asking which role it as poetry might still play in a modern society. In this class, we will engage in close readings of a selection of poems from this era to gain a sense of how post-Romantic poetry negotiates these issues and positions itself over against them.
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