Edward Lear as Victorian Modernist

Edward Lear as Victorian Modernist offers a bold new reading of Lear's limericks as foundational works of literary modernism. Far from being mere nonsense for children, Lear's picture-limericks-each a fusion of image and verse-operate as bi-modal metaphors that generate meaning through juxtaposition rather than narrative continuity. This interpretive mode, rooted in fragmentation and allusion, ali...