The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry / / Olivia Loksing Moy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Loksing Moy, Olivia,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations 10 colour illustrations 1 black and white table; 10 colour illustrations

Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic formsExplores authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christinia Rosetti, and G.M HopkinsShows genre formation as a process that occurs dynamically not only across periods, but across genres and class linesA lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from 1790s novels and tales exploded onto the English literary scene in ‘low-brow’ titles of Gothic romance. Surprisingly, however, they also re-emerged as features of major Victorian poems from the 1830s to 1870s. Such signature tropes — inquisitional overhearing; female confinement and the damsel in distress; supernatural switches between living and dead bodies — were transfigured into poetic forms that we recognise and teach today as canonically Victorian. The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry identifies a poetics of Gothic enclosure constitutive of high Victorian poetry that came to define key nineteenth-century poetic forms, from the dramatic monologue, to women’s sonnet sequences and metasonnets, to Pre-Raphaelite picture poems.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Framed, Imprisoned, Overheard -- 1. Gothic Overhearing: Inquisition, Confession, and Accusation in Browning’s Dramatic Monologues -- 2. The Gothic Poetess: Self-Confinement in the Sonnet Cell -- 3. Gothic Shock and Swap: Suspended Bodies and Fluctuating Frames in D. G. Rossetti’s Double Works -- 4. The Cloistered Cleric: Confessional, Confinement, and Hopkins’s Poetics of Wavering -- Conclusion. Emily Brontë’s Udolphics: The Gondal and Non-Gondal Poems -- Bibliography -- Index