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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
