Ciaran Cronin

A Companion to Victorian Poetry (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cronin, Richard; Chapman, Alison; Harrison, Antony

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405123181
• Artikelnr.: 38453809

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"Yet overall, and at its best, it provides what few critical bookscan offer: a highly readable, even rollicking account of the wholeera, as variegated and lively as Victorian poetry itself." (Review19, 2011)

"[A] comprehensive, challenging picture of Victorian poetryemerges when reading the entire collection of essays.... A feast ofinformation." (Brontë Studies, November 2009)

"The essays within are excellent. I think it an indispensablebook. The essays address the multifariousness of Victorian poetry,and the variety of critical and theoretical issues; in addition,they give the reader a sense of the marketing and reception of thepoetry." (Studies in English Literature, Fall 2008)

"Scholars will want to own this book.... Highly recommended."(Choice)

"A rich diversity of distinguished and learned scholars, mostlyfrom North America and the UK, have combined in this singularlyimpressive and important volume, to provide what for many might atfirst sight seem to be an almost impossible harvest: fresh andoriginal essays on carefully selected aspects of the poetry ofVictorian England." (Reference Reviews)

"Nicely affordable for the wealth of insights contained therein.Contains some fresh research.... This companion will not sit on theshelf and collect dust, but [will] be useful for both scholarly andentertaining reading." (English Literature inTransition)

"Not only is the Companion brimming with finearguments--there are far too many essays that warrant noticethan can possibly be picked out in a short review--but it isalso very well put together as a collection. Its clear table ofcontents and fulsome index make it easy to negotiate. Each essayis, moreover, followed by a generous list of references andsuggested further reading." (The Tennyson ResearchBulletin)"Not only is the Companion brimming with fine arguments -there are far too many essays that warrant notice than can possiblybe picked out in a short review - but it is also very well puttogether as a collection. Its clear table of contents and fulsomeindex make it easy to negotiate. Each essay is, moreover, followedby a generous list of references and suggested furtherreading."
-Michael Hurley, Cambridge University, The TennysonResearch Bulletin