1st Edition
Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry Political Dialects
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Language, Poetry, and Radical Reform in Victorian Britain
1. "No Perfect Code": Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Political Poetics and
Women’s Language
2. "And talks to his own self, howe’er he please": Robert Browning’s
Anti-Social Speech and Mid-Victorian Reform
3. The "Yelp of the Beast": Alfred Tennyson’s Animal Language,
Victorian Empire, and the End of Politics
4. To "Obliterate His Local Colour": Thomas Hardy’s "Provincial" Poetry
and the Reform Act of 1884
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Barbara Barrow is Assistant Professor of English at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. Her journal articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Journal of Victorian Culture, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Periodicals Review, Nineteenth Century Contexts, and Victoriographies. In 2016, she was a Visiting Scholar at Baylor University’s Armstrong Browning Library.
