A01=Olivia Loksing Moy
Author_Olivia Loksing Moy
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Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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G. M. Hopkins
Gothic
Gothic romance
Victorian poetry
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- ISBN 9781474487177
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
