Burden of Rhyme

Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Naomi Levine, Professor Naomi Levine

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A major new account of Victorian poetry and its place in the field of literary studies. The Burden of Rhyme shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practice of poetry. For Victorians, rhyme was not (as it was for the New Critics, and as it still is for us) a mere technique or ahistorical form. Instead, it carried vivid historical fantasies derived from early studies of world literature. Naomi Levine argues that rhyme’s association with the advent of literary modernity and with a repertoire of medievalist, Italophilic, and orientalist myths about love, loss, and poetic longing made it a sensitive historiographic instrument. Victorian poets used rhyme to theorize both literary history and the most elusive effects of aesthetic form. This Victorian formalism, which insisted on the significance of origins, was a precursor to and a challenge for twentieth-century methods. In uncovering the rich relationship between Victorian poetic forms and a forgotten style of literary-historical thought, The Burden of Rhyme reveals the unacknowledged influence of Victorian poetics—and its repudiation—on the development of modern literary criticism.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-28
Mått140 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226834962

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IntroductionPart I: Genetic Formalism: A Theory and Its Histories1: Old Historicism, New Criticism, and the Feeling in Form2: Arthur Hallam and the Origins of RhymePart II: Historiographic Forms3: Alfred Tennyson’s Lyric Stanza4: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Unblank Verse5: William Morris’s Fleshly Rhymes6: Coventry Patmore’s Passionate PauseConclusion: The Spirit of RomanceAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"A book of outstanding scholarship and often scintillating criticism. . . . The Burden of Rhyme is a deeply rewarding and important book. To readers and scholars of Victorian poetry, it will be of particular value, as it offers a means of accounting for what seemed to twentieth-century critics (as well as some later ones) to be the period’s excessive formality and sentiment. But the book’s lessons extend well beyond the specific field of Victorian poetry. To the extent that the stories it tells—about the relation of form to history; about the roots of our current critical practice in New Criticism’s reaction against the genetic formalism of the previous century—are fundamental to our self-understanding as literary critics, Levine’s compelling book will find readers across the discipline of literary studies."