The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry by Olivia Loksing Moy
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.-
Suffragist Artists in Partnership
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The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
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Exploring Victorian Travel Literature
- Walter Pater
- Spirit Becomes Matter
- William Morris and the Idea of Community
- Jane Morris
- Moving Images
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Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832 1860
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Determined Spirits
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The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the Stage
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Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature
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The Fin-De-Siecle Scottish Revival
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The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
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Rudyard Kipling's Fiction
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London's Underground Spaces
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Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Victorian Auto/Biography
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Olive Schreiner and the Politics of Print Culture, 1883-1920
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Gender, Technology and the New Woman
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Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry
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Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
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Novel Institutions
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Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London
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The Victorian Male Body
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The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism
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Blasted Literature
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Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century
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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status
Olivia Loksing Moy is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Lehman College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474487177 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474487173 |
| Title | The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry |
| Author | Olivia Loksing Moy |
| Series | Edinburgh Critical Studies In Victorian Culture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2022-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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