The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry / / Olivia Loksing Moy.
Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic formsExplores authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christinia Rosetti, and G.M HopkinsShows genre formation as a process that occurs dynamically not only across p...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations 10 colour illustrations 1 black and white table; 10 colour illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Framed, Imprisoned, Overheard -- 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’s Poetics of Wavering -- Conclusion. Emily Brontë’s Udolphics: The Gondal and Non-Gondal Poems -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic formsExplores authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christinia Rosetti, and G.M HopkinsShows genre formation as a process that occurs dynamically not only across periods, but across genres and class linesA 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781474487191 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110993752 9783110993738 9783110780390 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781474487191 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Olivia Loksing Moy. |