The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

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.

ISBN:	9781474487177
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Published date:	30 Sep 2022
DEWEY:	821.809
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Weight:	616g
Height:	161mm
Width:	241mm
Spine width:	23mm

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