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Science, Politics, and Friendship in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Ute Berns
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Hardback. Num Pages: 382 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 734.
This study revaluates the work of the scientist and radical, poet and dramatist and English exile in Germany Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849). While his writing has elicited high praise from poets ranging from Robert Browning through Ezra Pound to John Ashbery, scholars have frequently neglected it on grounds of its purportedly morbid and opaque eccentricity. Countering this scholarly perception, this book deftly relocates Beddoes’s poetry, drama and prose at the centre of Anglo-German debates on aesthetics and life science, politics and theatre in an early nineteenth-century European context. Aided by his letters from Germany, the book re-creates the intercultural discursive ... Read more
This study revaluates the work of the scientist and radical, poet and dramatist and English exile in Germany Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849). While his writing has elicited high praise from poets ranging from Robert Browning through Ezra Pound to John Ashbery, scholars have frequently neglected it on grounds of its purportedly morbid and opaque eccentricity. Countering this scholarly perception, this book deftly relocates Beddoes’s poetry, drama and prose at the centre of Anglo-German debates on aesthetics and life science, politics and theatre in an early nineteenth-century European context. Aided by his letters from Germany, the book re-creates the intercultural discursive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
Number of Pages
382
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493672
SKU
V9781611493672
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About Ute Berns
Ute Berns is professor of English literature at the University of Hamburg.
Reviews for Science, Politics, and Friendship in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Thomas Lovell Beddoes has been discussed more frequently in recent years, but books devoted to him are relatively rare. Ute Berns’s Science, Politics, and Friendship in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes will therefore be essential reading for Beddoes scholars. . . .This is a long, very full book. Berns takes every opportunity to fill in as much historical detail ... Read more