The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry Hardback
by Olivia Loksing Moy
Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture series
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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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- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2022
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, 1 B/W illustrations 10 colour illustrations 1 black and white table; 10 colour illustrati
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474487177
