Description:
This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it.
Brief description: Marion Thain is Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Edinburgh Futures Institute. She publishes primarily on the relationship between culture and technology (understood in the broadest terms) and her current projects sit within the interdisciplinary field of attention studies. See marionthain.org for more details.
Review Quotes: Both densely and deftly argued, The Lyric Poem and Aestheticism is a significant addition to scholarship on late-nineteenth-century poetry and will reward repeated readings not only for the history of aestheticist lyric it traces but also for the thoughtful interpretation of individual poets and poems. It will prove of special interest to students of English aestheticism, the history of the lyric, and the New Formalism.--John Lamb, West Virginia University "English Literature in Transition, Vol 61:3"