{"product_id":"gothic-forms-of-victorian-poetry","title":"Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry","description":"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.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54247695745368,"sku":"9781474487177","price":112.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781474487177.jpg?v=1778621431","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/gothic-forms-of-victorian-poetry","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}