The Victorian verse-novel : aspiring to life / Stefanie Markovits.
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.
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Oxford University Press,
2017.
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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.