基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2002. Comprises a series of newly commissioned articles from an international cast of distinguished scholars; demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts; considers Victorian women poets in every chapter.
Full 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.
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
Contents
Editors' Preface viii
Notes on Contributors x
Chronology xv
Introduction: Victorian Poetics 1
Carol T. Christ
PART ONE Varieties and Forms 23
1 Epic 25
Herbert F. Tucker
2 Domestic and Idyllic 42
Linda H. Peterson
3 Lyric 59
Matthew Rowlinson
4 Dramatic Monologue 80
E. Warwick Slinn
5 Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence 99
Alison Chapman
6 Elegy 115
Seamus Perry
7 Hymn 134
J. R. Watson
8 Nonsense 155
Roderick McGillis
9 Verse Novel 171
Dino Felluga
10 Verse Drama 187
Adrienne Scullion
11 Working-Class Poetry 204
Florence Boos
12 The Classical Tradition 229
Richard Jenkyns
13 Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism 246
Antony H. Harrison
14 Poetry in Translation 262
J.-A. George
15 Tractarian Poetry 279
Stephen Prickett
16 The Spasmodics 291
Richard Cronin
17 The Pre-Raphaelite School 305
David Riede
18 The Poetry of the 1890s 321
Chris Snodgrass
PART TWO Production, Distribution and Reception 343
19 The Market 345
Lee Erickson
20 Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon 361
Natalie M. Houston
21 Reviewing 378
Joanne Shattock
22 Poetry and Illustration 392
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
PART THREE Victorian Poetry and Victorian Culture 419
23 Nationhood and Empire 421
Margaret Linley
24 Poetry in the Four Nations 438
Matthew Campbell
25 Poetry and Religion 457
W. David Shaw
26 Poetry and Science 475
Alan Rauch
27 Landscape and Cityscape 493
Pauline Fletcher
28 Vision and Visuality 510
Catherine Maxwell
29 Marriage and Gender 526
Julia F. Saville
30 Sexuality and Love 543
John Maynard
Index 567
