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MASCULINITY, HEROISM, AND THE EMPIRE: ROBERT BROWNING'S “CLIVE” AND OTHER VICTORIAN RE-CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE STORY OF ROBERT CLIVE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2009

Evgenia Sifaki
Evgenia Sifaki*
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Greek Open University
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The core of this paper is a reading of Robert Browning's “Clive” (1880); it attempts to account for the formalist demands of this generically complex and relentlessly ironic poetic text, while at the same time it construes the accomplishment of Browning's poetic language and form as intricate cultural critique. However, in order to better understand Browning's poem an additional discussion of its intertexts is required, the most important being Thomas Babington Macaulay's essay “On Clive” (1840).

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 141 - 156
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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