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Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvOlivia Loksing Moy

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-31
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt532 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor320
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474487184

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Introduction: Gothic Tropes to Poetic Forms: A Poetics of Gothic Enclosure1. Gothic Overhearing: Inquisition, Confession, and Accusation in Browning’s Dramatic Monologues2. The Gothic Poetess: Self-Confinement in the Sonnet Cell3. Gothic Shock and Swap: Suspended Bodies and Fluctuating Frames in D.G. Rossetti’s Double Works4. The Cloistered Cleric: Confessional, Confinement, and Hopkins’ Poetics of WaveringConclusion: Emily Brontë's Udolphics: The Gondal and Non-Gondal PoemsBibliography

In nuanced and innovative readings that transfigure traditional generic divides, Olivia Loksing Moy explores the overlooked afterlife of the wild particularities of Romantic Gothic fiction in a variety of Victorian poetic genres – including the dramatic monologue, women’s sonnet sequences and picture poems – vividly reanimating and reframing sensational novelistic tropes and novel verse forms.