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The 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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Markovits, Stefanie, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: A Short History of a Long Form; I. Verse-novel?; II. Aspiring to life : Aurora Leigh; III. A Glance backward and a glimpse forward; Notes; 1: Adulterated Verse; I. Generic Inheritance; II. Lyric and Narrative; III. Falling Into Narrative; IV. Paradise Lost and the Forms of Lovetime; Notes; 2: The Longue Durée of Marriage; I. Either/Or?; II. ``And Love, that Grows;́́ III. From John Donne to Don Juan, Via Petrarch by Train; IV. Faithful for Ever?
  • Coda: The Earthly Paradise and the Lovers of Gudrun; Notes; 3: Circle-Squarers: Tennysonś and Browningś Form-Things; I. "And the circle-they will square it / some fine day"; II. The diamonds of Idylls of the King; III. Pompilia as Pearl; A Marginal comment (in lieu of Coda): The inn album; Notes; 4: Amours de Voyage: The Verse-Novel and European Travel; I. Amours De Voyage; II. Steam-Propelled Stories; III. Travelling Texts; IV. Genres, Genetics, and Gypsies; Postscript: Staying Put With Laurence Bloomfield In Ireland; Notes; 5: E Pluribus Unum: The American Verse-Novel.
  • I. Transatlantic Travels; II. The Lay of the Land; III. Kathrina: Mediators, Admixtures, and Menstruums; IV. An idyl of work: ``to some new world / they seemed translated;́́ V. The Woman Who Dared: Rights, Laws, and Forms; Notes; Afterword: Adulterated Verse, the Modernist Remix; Notes; Works Cited; Index.