The Gothic Forms Of Victorian Poetry
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The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
Author | : Olivia Loksing Moy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474487184 |
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Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms 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 - 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. Olivia Loksing Moy is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Lehman College.
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