The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry / Loksing Moy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moy, Olivia Loksing, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic poetry (Literary genre), English.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : illustrations (colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

A 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 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 19th-century poetic forms, from the dramatic monologue, to women's sonnet sequences and metasonnets, to Pre-Raphaelite picture poems.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 4, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Loksing Moy, Olivia The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry

ISBN:

1-4744-8720-3

1-4744-8719-X

OCLC:

1352453252