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Index
Cover
Title Page
Epigraph
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: Matthew Arnold’s Pregnant Poetry
I. Introduction
II. The Future Contained: “Democracy” and Culture and Anarchy
III. “Thy Remote and Sphered Course”: Desire and Isolation in Arnold’s Marguerite Poems.
IV. The Poetics of Shame: Wragg
V. Problems with Birth
VI. “Empedocles on Etna”: The Unbirthing of the Poem
VII. Conclusion
CHAPTER II: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Aesthetics of Emergency
I. Introduction
II. “Saint Agnes of Intercession”: The Painter of Modern Life and the Critic
III. “The Blessed Damozel” and “Bridal Birth”: The Ethics of Eros
IV. Conclusion: “The Monochord” and the Aesthetics of Emergency
CHAPTER III: Murder in Utopia: William Morris and the Surface of Desire
I. Introduction
II. The Surface of Desire
III. Murder in Utopia
IV. Conclusion: The Future of Organic Form
CHAPTER IV: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Reck of the Moment
I. Introduction
II. Early Reception: “Undying Spirit”
III. “Spelt from Sybil’s Leaves”: The Reck of the Moment
CODA: Messianism Now, or, Other Victorians
ENDNOTES
WORKS CITED
INDEX
About the Author
Copyright
Other Works by Julie Carr
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