Hunger Poetry And The Oxford Movement The Tractarian Social Vision Lesa Scholl by Lesa Scholl 9781350120723, 9781350120754, 1350120723, 1350120758 instant download after payment.

Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement examines the impact of the Tractarian social vision on poets concerned with the overwhelming nature of hunger and poverty in nineteenth-century Britain. This book reveals how the Oxford Movement’s overlapping concerns with poetry, theology and social activism influenced the works of a wide range of Victorian poets including Christina Rossetti, Coventry Patmore, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Adelaide Anne Procter, Alice Meynell and Lord Alfred Tennyson. Lesa Scholl reveals the extent to which these poets – not all of whom were Anglo-Catholics themselves or directly involved with Tractarianism – grappled with issues of poverty and economic injustice in and beyond their poetic works. By engaging with economic and cultural history, as well as the sensorial materiality of poetry, Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement challenges the assumption that High-Church politics were essentially conservative and removed from the social crises of the Victorian period.