Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Consciousness as self; consciousness as writing; absence and desire in "Maud"; fact and the factitious in "Amours de Voyage"; language and truth in "The Ring and the Book"; the politics of self in "The Ring and the Book"; afterword - on poetry as a significant discourse.
Synopsis
Written by the author of Browning and the Fictions of Identity, this is a study of the discourse of self in Victorian poetry.