Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-957646-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 908 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1713 g

'I am inclined to think that we want new forms. as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks at a few central innovations and engagements -- 'Rhythm', 'Beat', 'Address', 'Rhyme', 'Diction', 'Syntax', and 'Story'. The second section, 'Literary Landscapes', examines the traditions and writers (from classical times to the present day) that influence and take their bearings from Victorian poets. The third section provides 'Readings' of twenty-three poets by concentrating on particular poems or collections of poems, offering focused, nuanced engagements with the pleasures and challenges offered by particular styles of thinking and writing. The final section, 'The Place of Poetry', conceives and explores 'place' in a range of ways in order to situate Victorian poetry within broader contexts and discussions: the places in which poems were encountered; the poetic representation and embodiment of various sites and spaces; the location of the 'Victorian' alongside other territories and nationalities; and debates about the place - and displacement - of poetry in Victorian society. This Handbook is designed to be not only an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics, but also a landmark publication -- a provocative, seminal volume that will offer a lasting contribution to future studies in the area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bevis, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: At Work with Victorian Poetry

- Form

- 2.  : Michael Hurley: Rhythm

- 3.  : Derek Attridge: Beat

- 4.  : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: Address

- 5.  : Matthew Campbell: Rhyme

- 6.  : Garrett Stewart: Diction

- 7.  : Isobel Armstrong: Syntax

- 8.  : Herbert Tucker: Story

- Literary Landscapes

- 9.  : Isobel Hurst: Victorian Poetry and The Classics

- 10.  : Matthew Townend: Victorian Medievalisms

- 11.  : Erik Gray: Victorian Miltons

- 12.  : Bharat Tandon: Victorian Shakespeares

- 13.  : Michael O Neill: The Romantic Bequest: Arnold and Others

- 14.  : Elisa New: American Intersections: Poetry in the United States 1837-1901

- 15.  : Peter Robinson: The Poetry of Modern Life: On the Pavement

- 16.  : Adam Piette: Modernist Victorianism

- 17.  : David Wheatley: Dispatched Dark Regions Far Afield and Farther: Contemporary Poetry and Victorianism

- Readings

- 18.  : Caroline Levine: Rhyme, Rhythm, Violence: Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Slavery

- 19.  : Ruth Padel: Tennyson: Echo and Harmony, Music, and Thought

- 20.  : Ross Wilson: Browning's Balancing Acts

- 21.  : Hugh Haughton: Edward Lear and 'The fiddlediddlety of representation'

- 22.  : Michael Wood: Crime and Conjecture: Emily Brontë's Poems

- 23.  : Adam Phillips: Arthur Hugh Clough: The Reception and Conception of Amours de Voyage

- 24.  : Jane Wright: Matthew Arnold, Out of Time

- 25.  : Andrew Elfenbein: Modern Men and Women: Meredith's challenge to Browning

- 26.  : J. B. Bullen: Raising The Dead: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Willowwood sonnets

- 27.  : Constance Hassett: Christina Rossetti: Ravens, Cockatoos and Range

- 28.  : Marcus Waithe: William Barnes: Views of Field Labour in Poems of Modern Life

- 29.  : Clive Wilmer: Dreaming Reality: The Poetry of William Morris

- 30.  : Mark Ford: City of Pain: The Poetry of James Thomson

- 31.  : Emily Harrington: Augusta Webster: Time and The Lyric Ideal

- 32.  : Simon Jarvis: Swinburne: The Insuperable Sea

- 33.  : Seamus Perry  : Hardy's Imperfections

- 34.  : Martin Dubois: Hopkins's Beauty

- 35.  : Linda K. Hughes: Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper): Sight and Song and Significant Form

- 36.  : Meredith Martin: Alice Meynell, Again and Again

- 37.  : Janet Gezari: Housman's Difficulty

- 38.  : Peter Howarth: Rudyard Kipling plays the Empire

- 39.  : Peter McDonald: Victorian Yeats

- 40.  : Tim Kendall: The Passion of Charlotte Mew

-  The Place of Poetry

- 41.  : Samantha Matthews : Marketplaces

- 42.  : Stephanie Kuduk Weiner: Inner Space: Bodies and Minds

- 43.  : Anna Henchman: Outer Space: Physical Science

- 44.  : Rolf Lessenich: City and Street

- 45.  : Catherine Maxwell: In The Artist's Studio

- 46.  : Francis O Gorman  : On Not Hearing: Victorian Poetry and Music

- 47.  : Kirstie Blair: Church Going

- 48.  : Justin Quinn: Irish Poetry in the Victorian Age

- 49.  : Joe Phelan: Empire and Orientalisms

- 50.  : James Williams: Comic Verse

- 51.  : Danny Karlin: 'The song-bird whose name is Legion': Bad Verse and its Critics

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Bevis is a University Lecturer and Fellow in English at Keble College, Oxford. He is the author of The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (OUP, 2007) and Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2012). He is the editor of Some Versions of Empson (OUP, 2007).