{"product_id":"sinceritys-shadow-9780674011885","title":"Sinceritys Shadow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver since Wordsworth redefined poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, poets in English have sought to represent a sincere self-consciousness through their work. Forbes's generative insight is that this project can only succeed by staging its own failures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ambitious project undertaken by Deborah Forbes in \u003ci\u003eSincerity's Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is to reinvigorate sincerity as a critical concept...Overall...this is a wonderfully stimulating book, which should energize debate about poetic selfhood. * Year's Work in English Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    1. The Personal Universal  Sincerity as Integrity in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Rich   2. Before and After  Sincerity as Form in the Poetry of Wordsworth, Lowell, Rich, and Plath   3. Sincerity and the Staged Confession  The Monologues of Browning, Eliot, Berryman, and Plath   4. The Drama of Breakdown and the Breakdown of Drama  The Charismatic Poetry of Byron and Sexton   5. Agnostic Sincerity  The Poet as Observer in the Work of Keats, Bishop, and Merrill    Conclusion   Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403518189911,"sku":"9780674011885","price":64.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674011885.jpg?v=1730483706","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sinceritys-shadow-9780674011885","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}