The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
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2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8717-7 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8717-7 (ISBN)
Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms.
A lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from 1790s novels and tales exploded onto the English literary scene in ‘low-brow’ titles of Gothic romance. Surprisingly, however, they also re-emerged as features of major Victorian poems from the 1830s to 1870s. Such signature tropes — inquisitional overhearing; female confinement and the damsel in distress; supernatural switches between living and dead bodies — were transfigured into poetic forms that we recognise and teach today as canonically Victorian. The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry identifies a poetics of Gothic enclosure constitutive of high Victorian poetry that came to define key nineteenth-century poetic forms, from the dramatic monologue, to women’s sonnet sequences and metasonnets, to Pre-Raphaelite picture poems.
A lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from 1790s novels and tales exploded onto the English literary scene in ‘low-brow’ titles of Gothic romance. Surprisingly, however, they also re-emerged as features of major Victorian poems from the 1830s to 1870s. Such signature tropes — inquisitional overhearing; female confinement and the damsel in distress; supernatural switches between living and dead bodies — were transfigured into poetic forms that we recognise and teach today as canonically Victorian. The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry identifies a poetics of Gothic enclosure constitutive of high Victorian poetry that came to define key nineteenth-century poetic forms, from the dramatic monologue, to women’s sonnet sequences and metasonnets, to Pre-Raphaelite picture poems.
Olivia Loksing Moy is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Lehman College.
Introduction: Gothic Tropes to Poetic Forms: A Poetics of Gothic Enclosure
1. Gothic Overhearing: Inquisition, Confession, and Accusation in Browning’s Dramatic Monologues
2. The Gothic Poetess: Self-Confinement in the Sonnet Cell
3. Gothic Shock and Swap: Suspended Bodies and Fluctuating Frames in D.G. Rossetti’s Double Works
4. The Cloistered Cleric: Confessional, Confinement, and Hopkins’ Poetics of Wavering
Conclusion: Emily Brontë's Udolphics: The Gondal and Non-Gondal Poems
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.09.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 black and white illustration, 10 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-8717-3 / 1474487173 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-8717-7 / 9781474487177 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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