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Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Genre, Gender and Criticism

By: Dr Marianne Van Remoortel

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Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Genre, Gender and Criticism

By: Dr Marianne Van Remoortel

In a series of representative case studies, Marianne Van Remoortel traces the development of the sonnet during intense moments of change and stability, continuity and conflict, from the early Romantic period to the end of the nineteenth century. Paying particular attention to the role of the popular press, which served as a venue of innovation and as a site of recruitment for aspiring authors, Van Remoortel redefines the scope of the genre, including the ways in which its development is intricately related to issues of gender. Among her subjects are the Della Cruscans and their primary critic William Gifford, the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his circle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, George Meredith's Modern Love, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's House of Life and Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter. As women became a force to be reckoned with among the reading public and the writing community, the term 'sonnet' often operated as a satirical label that was not restricted to poetry adhering to the strict formalities of the genre. Van Remoortel's study, in its attentiveness to the sonnet's feminization during the late eighteenth century, offers important insights into the ways in which changing attitudes about gender and genre shaped critics' interpretations of the reception histories of nineteenth-century sonnet sequences.

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1409478483

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Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

Challenging the Personal Voice

By: Dr Britta Martens

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Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

Challenging the Personal Voice

By: Dr Britta Martens

Taking an original approach to Robert Browning's poetics, Britta Martens focuses on a corpus of relatively neglected poems in Browning's own voice in which he reflects on his poetry, his self-conceptualization and his place in the poetic tradition. She analyzes his work in relation to Romanticism, Victorian reactions to the Romantic legacy, and wider nineteenth-century changes in poetic taste, to argue that in these poems, as in his more frequently studied dramatic monologues, Browning deploys varied dramatic methods of self-representation, often critically and ironically exposing the biases and limitations of the seemingly authoritative speaker 'Browning'. The poems thus become devices for Browning's detached evaluation of his own and of others' poetics, an evaluation never fully explicit but presented with elusive economy for the astute reader to interpret. The confrontation between the personal authorial voice and the dramatic voice in these poems provides revealing insights into the poet's highly self-conscious, conflicted and sustained engagement with the Romantic tradition and the diversely challenging reader expectations that he faces in a post-Romantic age. As the Victorian most rigorous in his rejection of Romantic self-expression, Browning is a key transitional figure between the sharply antagonistic periods of Romanticism and Modernism. He is also, as Martens persuasively demonstrates, a poet of complex contradictions and an illuminating case study for addressing the perennial issues of voice, authorial authority and self-reference.

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1409478874

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Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Painter as Poet

By: Dr Brian Donnelly

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Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Painter as Poet

By: Dr Brian Donnelly

Suggesting that Rossetti’s work should be approached through his poetry, Brian Donnelly argues that it is both inscribed by and inscribes the development of verbal as well as visual culture in the Victorian period. He situates Rossetti’s poetry as the key to all of his work and central in its representation of the dominant discourses of the Victorian era: faith, sex, consumption, death, and the nature of representation itself.

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1472446682

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Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Genre, Gender and Criticism

By: Dr Marianne Van Remoortel

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Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895

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