Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical / / Caley Ehnes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Ehnes, Caley,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian PoeticsVictorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that asserts the fundamental importance of popular periodical poetry to our understanding of Victorian poetics. Reading the poetry of un-anthologised, unnamed and underappreciated poets alongside that of Tennyson, Barrett Browning and Rossetti, Ehnes argues that the popular poet is not a marginal poet: he, and especially she, occupies the centre of literary culture, producing the poetry consumed by the majority of Victorian readers.Key FeaturesProvides an invaluable index of the poetry published in the periodicalsIncludes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussedAnalyses periodicals including Macmillan’s Magazine, Charles Dickens’s Household Words and All the Year Round, Once a Week, William Thackeray’s Cornhill, the religious periodical Good Words, and the Argosy

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Poetry, Popularity and the Periodical Press -- Chapter 1. Middle-Class Audiences, Literary Weeklies and the Inaugural Poem: Household Words, All the Year Round and Once a Week -- Chapter 2. The New Shilling Monthlies: Macmillan’s Magazine and The Cornhill -- Chapter 3. Devotional Reading and Popular Poetry in Good Words -- Chapter 4. The Poetics of Popular Poetry in the Argosy -- Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? -- Appendix: Biographies of Significant Contributors, Illustrators and Publishers -- Works Cited -- Index