Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics

Heather Bozant Witcher is Assistant Professor at Auburn University at Montgomery, USA. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century poetics, collaboration, and sociability, as well as archival theory and digital humanities.Amy Kahrmann Huseby is Assistant Teaching Professor at Florida International University, USA, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century poetics, gender and sexuality, race and empire, and the history of science.

• Introduction: Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics, Heather Bozant Witcher and Amy Kahrmann Huseby.- Chapter 1: Gender Work: The Political Stakes of Pre-Raphaelitism by Heather Bozant Witcher and Amy Kahrmann Huseby.- Chapter 2: “Investigating Intersexuality: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and the Hermaphrodite Self” by John Holmes.- Chapter 3: “Second Generation Pre-Raphaelitism: The Poetry of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine” by Florence Boos.- Chapter 4: ““Of Chivalry, and deeds of might”: Reviving Frederic George Stephens’s ‘lost’ Arthurian Poem” by Robert Wilkes.- Chapter 5: “Musico-literary Pre-Raphaelite Poetry” by Mary Arseneau.- Chapter 6: “Christina Rossetti’s Emblematic Poetics” by Heather McAlpine.- Chapter 7: “Elizabeth Siddall: Pre-Raphaelitism, Poetry, Prosody” by Serena Trowbridge.- Chapter 8: “Swinburne’s Pre-Raphaelite Poetics” by Elizabeth Helsinger.- Chapter 9 “Afar from my own self I seem”: D.H. Lawrence, Persephone and Pre-Raphaelite Poetics by Hannah Comer.- Chapter 10: Afterword by Dinah Roe.