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Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian Poetics
Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that asserts the fundamental importance of popular periodical poetry to our understanding of Victorian poetics. Reading the poetry of un-anthologised, unnamed and underappreciated poets alongside that of Tennyson, Barrett Browning and Rossetti, Ehnes argues that the popular poet is not a marginal poet: he, and especially she, occupies the centre of literary culture, producing the poetry consumed by the majority of Victorian readers.
Caley Ehnes is Instructor of English Literature and Composition at the College of the Rockies.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Poetry, Popularity, and the Periodical Press; 1. Middle Class Audiences, Literary Weeklies, and the Inaugural Poem: Household Words, All the Year Round, and Once a Week; 2. The New Shilling Monthlies: Macmillan's Magazine and The Cornhill; 3. First off the Block: Alexander Macmillan's and Macmillan's Magazine; 4. Devotional Reading and Popular Poetry in Good Words; 5. The Poetics of Popular Poetry in the Argosy; Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?; Appendix B: Biographies of Significant Contributors, Illustrators, and Publishers; Works Cited; Index.
About the author
Caley Ehnes (PhD) received her doctorate from the University of Victoria (Canada). She currently teaches English literature and composition at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook, British Columbia. She has published articles on periodical poetry in Women's Writing, Victorian Review, and Victorian Periodicals Review, and she co-edited an issue of Victorian Poetry in 2014.
Summary
Without a consideration of periodical poetry, Victorian poetry studies is quite simply anachronistic
