TY - JOUR
T1 - Swinburne Contra Whitman
T2 - From cosmopolitan republican to Parochial English Jingo?
AU - Saville, Julia F.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Marking the centenary year of Algernon Charles Swinburne's death, this essay revisits the politics of his poetry - his "cosmopolitan republican" poetics - in the light of recent critical theories of "rooted cosmopolitanism." Taking as illustration Swinburne's ongoing transatlantic engagement with Walt Whitman's poetics, now regrettably exemplified for many readers by his pointedly mean-spirited critique, "Whitmania" (1887), the essay argues that the contraction of Swinburne's later republicanism is less evidence of his increasing jingoism, as Cecil Y. Lang sees it, than of the difficulties he encountered negotiating the continuing demands of being both inclusively cosmopolitan and an English-identified republican.
AB - Marking the centenary year of Algernon Charles Swinburne's death, this essay revisits the politics of his poetry - his "cosmopolitan republican" poetics - in the light of recent critical theories of "rooted cosmopolitanism." Taking as illustration Swinburne's ongoing transatlantic engagement with Walt Whitman's poetics, now regrettably exemplified for many readers by his pointedly mean-spirited critique, "Whitmania" (1887), the essay argues that the contraction of Swinburne's later republicanism is less evidence of his increasing jingoism, as Cecil Y. Lang sees it, than of the difficulties he encountered negotiating the continuing demands of being both inclusively cosmopolitan and an English-identified republican.
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U2 - 10.1353/elh.2011.0013
DO - 10.1353/elh.2011.0013
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:79959384256
SN - 0013-8304
VL - 78
SP - 479
EP - 505
JO - ELH - English Literary History
JF - ELH - English Literary History
IS - 2
ER -