A Companion to Victorian Poetry (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

✍ Scribed by Ciaran Cronin

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 634
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

A COMPANION TO VICTORIAN POETRY......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Editors ’ Preface......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Chronology......Page 17
Introduction:Victorian Poetics......Page 29
PART ONE Varieties and Forms......Page 51
1 Epic......Page 53
2 Domestic and Idyllic......Page 70
3 Lyric......Page 87
4 Dramatic Monologue......Page 108
5 Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence......Page 127
6 Elegy......Page 143
7 Hymn......Page 162
8 Nonsense......Page 183
9 Verse Novel......Page 199
10 Verse Drama......Page 215
11 Working-Class Poetry......Page 232
12 The Classical Tradition......Page 257
13 Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism......Page 274
14 Poetry in Translation......Page 290
15 Tractarian Poetry......Page 307
16 The Spasmodics......Page 319
17 The Pre-Raphaelite School......Page 333
18 The Poetry of the 1890s......Page 349
PART TWO Production,Distribution and Reception......Page 371
19 The Market......Page 373
20 Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon......Page 389
21 Reviewing......Page 406
22 Poetry and Illustration......Page 420
PART THREE Victorian Poetry and Victorian Culture......Page 447
23 Nationhood and Empire......Page 449
24 Poetry in the Four Nations......Page 466
25 Poetry and Religion......Page 485
26 Poetry and Science......Page 503
27 Landscape and Cityscape......Page 521
28 Vision and Visuality......Page 538
29 Marriage and Gender......Page 554
30 Sexuality and Love......Page 571
Index......Page 595