Cronin / Harrison / Chapman A Companion to Victorian Poetry

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2318-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 632 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This Companion brings together specially commissioned essaysby distinguished international scholars that reflect both thediversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of criticalapproaches that illuminate it.
* * Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production andcultural context, rather than through individual poets orpoems
* Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from anumber of overlapping cultural contexts.
* Explores the relationships between work by differentpoets
* Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that hasfallen into neglect
* Essays are informed by recent developments in textual andcultural theory
* Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cronin, Ciaran

Cronin, Richard

Harrison, Antony

Chapman, Alison

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Preface viii
Notes on Contributors x
Chronology xv
Introduction: Victorian Poetics 1
Carol T. Christ
PART ONE Varieties and Forms 23
1 Epic 25
Herbert F. Tucker
2 Domestic and Idyllic 42
Linda H. Peterson
3 Lyric 59
Matthew Rowlinson
4 Dramatic Monologue 80
E. Warwick Slinn
5 Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence 99
Alison Chapman
6 Elegy 115
Seamus Perry
7 Hymn 134
J. R. Watson
8 Nonsense 155
Roderick McGillis
9 Verse Novel 171
Dino Felluga
10 Verse Drama 187
Adrienne Scullion
11 Working-Class Poetry 204
Florence Boos
12 The Classical Tradition 229
Richard Jenkyns
13 Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism 246
Antony H. Harrison
14 Poetry in Translation 262
J.-A. George
15 Tractarian Poetry 279
Stephen Prickett
16 The Spasmodics 291
Richard Cronin
17 The Pre-Raphaelite School 305
David Riede
18 The Poetry of the 1890s 321
Chris Snodgrass
PART TWO Production, Distribution and Reception 343
19 The Market 345
Lee Erickson
20 Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon 361
Natalie M. Houston
21 Reviewing 378
Joanne Shattock
22 Poetry and Illustration 392
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
PART THREE Victorian Poetry and Victorian Culture 419
23 Nationhood and Empire 421
Margaret Linley
24 Poetry in the Four Nations 438
Matthew Campbell
25 Poetry and Religion 457
W. David Shaw
26 Poetry and Science 475
Alan Rauch
27 Landscape and Cityscape 493
Pauline Fletcher
28 Vision and Visuality 510
Catherine Maxwell
29 Marriage and Gender 526
Julia F. Saville
30 Sexuality and Love 543
John Maynard
Index 567

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Cronin teaches at Glasgow University. Hispublications include The Politics of Romantic Poetry (2000)and Romantic Victorians: English Literature 1824-1840(2002)
Antony H. Harrison teaches at North Carolina StateUniversity. His books include Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems(1990), Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture(1998), The Culture of Christina Rossetti (1999), and TheLetters of Christina Rossetti (4 vols, 1998-2004).
Alison Chapman teaches at Glasgow University and is theauthor of The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti (2000), editorof Victorian Women's Poetry (2003), and co-editor ofWomen and Italy in the Nineteenth Century (2002).