A Companion to Victorian Poetry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405176121 ISBN 13: 9781405176125

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it.

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• Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems
  
• Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts.
  
• Explores the relationships between work by different poets
  
• Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect
  
• Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory
  
• Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter

About this title

Book Description:

This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. The volume opens with an introductory essay on Victorian poetics by Carol Christ that offers a commanding overview of the whole period. The remaining contributions are organized into three parts: the first surveys the variety of schools and styles in Victorian poetry; in the second, the focus shifts from the form and content of the poetry to the means of its production and distribution; the final part positions Victorian verse in its contexts and explores its interactions with dominant cultural discourses. The Companion as a whole does more than map the existing state of scholarship in the field: it sets out an agenda for future research.

About the Author:

Richard Cronin teaches at Glasgow University. His publications include The Politics of Romantic Poetry (2000) and Romantic Victorians: English Literature 1824-1840 (2002)

Antony H. Harrison teaches at North Carolina State University. His books include Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems (1990), Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture (1998), The Culture of Christina Rossetti (1999), and The Letters of Christina Rossetti (4 vols, 1998-2004).

Alison Chapman teaches at Glasgow University and is the author of The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti (2000), editor of Victorian Women's Poetry (2003), and co-editor of Women and Italy in the Nineteenth Century (2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405176121
• ISBN 13: 9781405176125
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Cronin Richard, Harrison Antony, Chapman Alison