Victorian Verse-Novel - Aspiring to Life

This volume considers the verse-novel, a much-understudied branch of Victorian literature. It demonstrates that Victorian poets were challenging norms and experimenting with many of the revolutionary formal tactics that we associate with modernism.

About the author

Stefanie Markovits, Professor of English, has been teaching at Yale since 2001. A graduate of Yale College, Markovits completed an M.Phil in English Romantic Studies at Oxford before returning to Yale for her Ph.D. Professor Markovits is the author of two books, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (2006, winner of the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize) and The Crimean War in the British Imagination (2009). She studies and teaches British literature of the long nineteenth century: Romantic and Victorian, poetry and the novel.

Summary

This volume considers the verse-novel, a much-understudied branch of Victorian literature. It demonstrates that Victorian poets were challenging norms and experimenting with many of the revolutionary formal tactics that we associate with modernism.

Additional text

Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Stefanie Markovits, Stefanie (Professor of English Language Markovits, Stefanie (Professor of English Language and Literature Markovits, Markovits Stefanie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780198718864
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871886-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets