Victorian Verse

The Poetics of Everyday Life
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-29695-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 289 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life casts new light on nineteenth-century poetry by examining the period through its popular verse forms and their surrounding social and media landscape. The volume offers insight into two central concepts of both the Victorian era and our own—status and taste—and how cultural hierarchies then and now were and are constructed and broken. By recovering the lost diversity of Victorian verse, the book maps the breadth of Victorian writing and reading practices, illustrating how these seemingly minor verse genres actually possessed crucial social functions for Victorians, particularly in education, leisure practices, the cultural production of class, and the formation of individual and communal identities. The essays consider how “major” Victorian poets, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were also committed to writing and reading “minor” verse, further troubling the clear-cut notions of canonicity by examining the contradictions of value.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loksing Moy, Olivia

Behlman, Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Defining Victorian Verse 2 The Matter with Verse: What Victorian Poetry Wasn’t, and Was 3 Filler Poems: Synecdoche and the Serial Rhythms of Victorian Poetry 4 Workplace Verse: Poetry, Performance and the Industrial Worker 5 Contingent Lyrics: Christina Rossetti’s Verses and Poems 6 Exile and Elegy: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and Colonial Verse 
7 William Barnes’s Dual Vocation and the Management of Feeling 8 “Of China That’s Ancient and Blue”: Andrew Lang, English Parnassus, and the Figure of Form 9 Anti-Elitist Elitist Verse: Comic Ballades, Rondeaus &c. in Punch and Fun 10 “Visions, half-visions, guesses and darknesses…”: History as Verse in Thomas Carlyle 11 Silence, Rhyme, and Motherhood in Christina Rossetti’s Sing-Song 12 Nineteenth-Century Sonnet Contests and Parlor Games: “Leafiness” and Bits of Rhyme 13 “Hymns That Have Helped”: Hymnody as Lived Verse for the Victorian Public

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Behlman is Associate Professor of English and Honors Program Director at Montclair State University. He co-edited the collection Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates (Routledge 2016) with Anne Longmuir, and has published articles on Victorian classicism, nineteenth-century motherhood, and light verse in journals such as Victorian Poetry, Journal of Victorian Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. 
Olivia Loksing Moy is an Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York, Lehman College. She is the author of The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry and has published widely on Romantic and Victorian poetry, the Gothic, and comparative and world literatures. With Marco Ramírez, she is co-editor and co-translator of Julio Cortázar’s Imagen de John Keats. Moy is director of The CUNY Rare Book Scholars and serves as a volume lead for the Michael Field Diaries Project.