Title The Gothic forms of Victorian poetry / Olivia Loksing Moy

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : illustrations Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture. Contents Introduction : Framed, imprisoned, overheard -- Gothic overhearing : Inquisition, confession, and accusation in Browning's dramatic monologues -- The Gothic poetess : Self-confinement in the sonnet cell -- Gothic shock and swap : Suspended bodies and fluctuating frames in D.G. Rossetti's double works -- The cloistered cleric : Confessional, confinement, and Hopkins's poetics of wavering -- Conclusion : Emily Brontë's Udolphics : The Gondal and non-Gondal poems Summary "Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms. 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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Olivia Loksing Moy is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Lehman College Print version record Subject Gothic poetry (Literary genre), English. English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Gothic poetry (Literary genre), English English poetry Genre/Form Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474487191 147448719X 9781474487207 1474487203

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