The Poetry of Married Life
Date
2025-01-16
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Cambridge University Press
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Book chapter
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Abstract
This chapter examines the depiction of 'the quotidian reality of married life' in mid-Victorian poetry, identifying some of the challenges faced by poets in dealing with this topic and highlighting their preoccupation with issues remote from modern concerns such as the fate of married couples after death.
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Poetry, Victorian, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coventry Patmore, Arthur Hugh Clough
Citation
Phelan, J.P. (2025) The Poetry of Married Life. In: G. Marshall (ed.) Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1850s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 317-337
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Institute of Humanities and Political Studies