Love among the Poets

The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy
Herausgeber: Gray, Erik; Chaozon Bauer, Pearl

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Many of the greatest love poems in English date from the Victorian period, yet this is the first scholarly book in decades to consider the whole range of Victorian love poetry by authors such as Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Augusta Webster, Thomas Hardy, and William Butler Yeats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780821425442
• ISBN-10: 0821425447
• Artikelnr.: 69829915

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Counting the Ways of Love in Victorian Poetry
Erik Gray and Pearl Chaozon Bauer
I. Dualities
Christina Rossetti’s Echoes
Eros and the Victorian Double Poem
Stephanie L. Johnson
The Revival of Courtly Love, 1850–1870
Allegory, Anachronism, and Violence
Matthew Rowlinson
Love Charms
Herbert F. Tucker
The Erotics of Sprung Rhythm
Erik Gray
II. Courtship and Marriage
Love on the Factory Floor
Working-Class Poets and Factory Courtship Verse
Kirstie Blair
“All on the Threshold”
Christina Rossetti’s Revisionary Epithalamia
Pearl Chaozon Bauer
The Mathematics of Marriage
Augusta Webster’s Combinatory and Fractional Intimacy
Amy Kahrmann Huseby
III. Beyond Erotic Intimacy
Intimacy and the Neologistic Imagination in Hardy and Hopkins
Veronica Alfano
The Secret History of the Sonnet
The Poetics of Maternal Love in Augusta Webster’s Mother and Daughter
Josie Billington
The Poetics of Cross-Species Love
Julia F. Saville
Yeats’s Intimacies
Francis O’Gorman
Contributors
Index