Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical

Caley Ehnes

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical

Caley Ehnes

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474418355

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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.

Key Features

Provides an invaluable index of the poetry published in the periodicals
Includes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussed
Analyses periodicals including Macmillan’s Magazine, Charles Dickens’s Household Words and All the Year Round, Once a Week, William Thackeray’s Cornhill, the religious periodical Good Words, and the Argosy

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: Poetry, Popularity and the Periodical Press Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Middle-Class Audiences, Literary Weeklies and the Inaugural Poem: Household Words, All the Year Round and Once a Week Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter 2. The New Shilling Monthlies: Macmillan’s Magazine and The Cornhill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Chapter 3. Devotional Reading and Popular Poetry in Good Words Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 4. The Poetics of Popular Poetry in the Argosy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Appendix: Biographies of Significant Contributors, Illustrators and Publishers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474418355