The Victorian Verse Novel

Author : Stefanie Markovits
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198718864

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The Victorian Verse-novel by Stefanie Markovits Pdf

The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the verse-novel, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Such poems combined epic length with novelistic plots in the attempt to capture not a heroic past but the quotidian present. Victorian verse-novels also tended to be rough-mixed, their narrative sections interspersed with shorter, lyrical verses in varied measures. In flouting the rules of contemporary genre theory, which saw poetry as the purview of the eternal and ideal and relegated the everyday to the domain of novelistic prose, verse-novels proved well suited to upsetting other hierarchies, as well, including those of gender and class. The genre's radical energies often emerge from the competition between lyric and narrative drives, between the desire for transcendence and the quest to find meaning in what happens next; the unusual marriage plots that structure such poems prove crucibles of these rival forces. Generic tensions also yield complex attitudes towards time and space: the book's first half considers the temporality of love, while its second looks at generic geography through the engagement of novels in verse with Europe and the form's transatlantic travels. Both well-known verse-novels (Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage, Coventry Patmore's The Angel in the House) and lesser-known examples are read closely alongside a few nearly related works (Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book). An Afterword traces the verse-novel's substantial influence on the modernist novel.

Author : Christopher Ricks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199556311

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The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse by Christopher Ricks Pdf

Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology presents a wonderfully varied collection of Victorian poetry, with 560 poems by 115 authors. The great figures of the period - Tennyson, Browning, Swinburne, and Hopkins - are strongly represented, but light verse and nonsense poetry have not been neglected. With most poems given in their entirety, this is a lively and exciting anthology of Victorian verse selected by an expert in the field.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Executions and executioners
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004530353

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The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning Pdf

Author : Stefanie Markovits
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191028939

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The Victorian Verse-Novel by Stefanie Markovits Pdf

The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the verse-novel, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Such poems combined epic length with novelistic plots in the attempt to capture not a heroic past but the quotidian present. Victorian verse-novels also tended to be rough-mixed, their narrative sections interspersed with shorter, lyrical verses in varied measures. In flouting the rules of contemporary genre theory, which saw poetry as the purview of the eternal and ideal and relegated the everyday to the domain of novelistic prose, verse-novels proved well suited to upsetting other hierarchies, as well, including those of gender and class. The genre's radical energies often emerge from the competition between lyric and narrative drives, between the desire for transcendence and the quest to find meaning in what happens next; the unusual marriage plots that structure such poems prove crucibles of these rival forces. Generic tensions also yield complex attitudes towards time and space: the book's first half considers the temporality of love, while its second looks at generic geography through the engagement of novels in verse with Europe and the form's transatlantic travels. Both well-known verse-novels (Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage, Coventry Patmore's The Angel in the House) and lesser-known examples are read closely alongside a few nearly related works (Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book). An Afterword traces the verse-novel's substantial influence on the modernist novel.

Author : Catherine Addison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527504158

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A Genealogy of the Verse Novel by Catherine Addison Pdf

The present age has seen an explosion of verse novels in many parts of the world. Australia is a prolific producer, as are the USA and the UK. Novels in verse have also appeared in Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Jamaica and several other countries. A novel written in verse contradicts theories that distinguish the novel as essentially a prose genre. The boundaries of prose and verse are, however, somewhat fluid. This is especially evident in the case of free verse poetry and the kinds of prose used in many Modernist novels. The contemporary outburst may seem a uniquely Postmodernist flouting of generic boundaries, but, in fact, the verse novel is not new. Its origins reach back to at least the eighteenth century. Byron’s Don Juan, in the early nineteenth century, was an important influence on many later examples. Since its first surge in popularity during the Victorian era, it has never died out, though some fine examples, most of them from the earlier twentieth century, have been neglected or forgotten. This book investigates the status of the verse novel as a genre and traces its mainly English-language history from its beginnings. The discussion will be of interest to genre theorists, prosodists, narratologists and literary historians, as well as readers of verse novels wishing for some background to this apparently new literary phenomenon.

Author : Isobel Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134970667

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Victorian Poetry by Isobel Armstrong Pdf

In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

Author : Alessandro Albisetti,Ellen L. O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 8814210853

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Crime in Verse by Alessandro Albisetti,Ellen L. O'Brien Pdf

Oltre a un'appendice di documenti, il volume contiene un'introduzione che vuole essere, ad un tempo, una riflessione e un ricordo relativi al conferimento - in data 17 marzo 1990 - della Laurea ad honorem di Giurisprudenza al Cardinale Agostino Casaroli presso l'Università di arma.

Author : Linda Weste
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781925984255

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Inside the Verse Novel by Linda Weste Pdf

In these twenty-two interviews with verse novelists from the UK, USA, Australia and Canada, Linda Weste explores the uniqueness of storytelling through poetry and the genre of the verse novel. Her subjects are notable representatives of countries where the genre thrives; among them is Bernardine Evaristo, joint winner of the Booker Prize in 2019; and what they have to say enriches our understanding of the many ways poetry and narratives can meld to create a unique reading experience.

Author : Amalendu Bose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0841431094

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The Early Victorian Verse-novel by Amalendu Bose Pdf

Author : Lisa Rodensky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199533145

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The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel by Lisa Rodensky Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.

Author : Linda K. Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521856249

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The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry by Linda K. Hughes Pdf

An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.

Author : Arthur Hugh Clough
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547169628

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Amours De Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Amours De Voyage" by Arthur Hugh Clough. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Richard Cronin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119121411

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Reading Victorian Poetry by Richard Cronin Pdf

Reading Victorian Poetry “Richard Cronin’s exceptionally fine book carries out just what its title promises – reading. The pleasure of his adroit, meticulously imaginative insights into verbal and metrical effects is constant … One of the best general readings of Victorian poetry in the last ten years.” Victorian Studies “Reading Victorian Poetry will make an excellent introduction to Victorian poetry and gives a good account of a number of key issues.” English Studies Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era, carefully selected by the author to reflect the breadth and diversity of nineteenth-century poetry. Richard Cronin’s outstanding consideration of a wide range of poets reflects the unusual diversity of Victorian poetry, which includes, amongst others, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, D.G. Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The book investigates key concerns of the era in which poetry was ousted by the novel from the culturally central position that it had enjoyed for centuries. The result is an important and exciting contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century poetry, and a crucial resource for anyone interested in Victorian literature.

Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521646804

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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry by Joseph Bristow Pdf

This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Author : Kirstie Blair
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191534386

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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart by Kirstie Blair Pdf

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, and argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in many major Victorian poems highlights anxieties in this period about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. In the course of the nineteenth century, this study argues, increased doubt about the validity of feeling led to the depiction of the literary heart as alienated, distant, outside the control of mind and will. This coincided with a notable rise in medical literature specifically concerned with the pathological heart, and with the development of new techniques and instruments of investigation such as the stethoscope. As poets feared for the health of their own hearts, their poetry embodies concerns about a widespread culture of heartsickness in both form and content. In addition, concerns about the heart's status and actions reflect upon questions of religious faith and doubt, and feed into issues of gender and nationalism. This book argues that it is vital to understand how this wider culture of the heart informed poetry and was in turn influenced by poetic constructs. Individual chapters on Barrett Browning, Arnold, and Tennyson explore the vital presence of the heart in major works by these poets - including Aurora Leigh, 'Empedocles on Etna', In Memoriam, and Maud - while the wide-ranging opening chapters present an argument for the mutual influence of poetry and physiology in the period and trace the development of new theories of rhythm as organic and affective.