Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical
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 periodicalsIncludes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussedAnalyses 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 each as separate case study

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Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical
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 periodicalsIncludes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussedAnalyses 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 each as separate case study

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Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical

Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical

by Caley Ehnes
Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical

Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical

by Caley Ehnes

Overview

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 periodicalsIncludes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussedAnalyses 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 each as separate case study

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474473194
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 08/25/2020
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Caley Ehnes (PhD) received her doctorate from the University of Victoria (Canada). She currently teaches English literature and composition at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook, British Columbia. She has published articles on periodical poetry in Women’s Writing, Victorian Review, and Victorian Periodicals Review, and she co-edited an issue of Victorian Poetry in 2014.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Poetry, Popularity, and the Periodical Press

  1. Middle Class Audiences, Literary Weeklies, and the Inaugural Poem: Household Words, All the Year Round, and Once a Week

  2. The New Shilling Monthlies: Macmillan’s Magazine and The Cornhill

  3. First off the Block: Alexander Macmillan’s and Macmillan’s Magazine

  4. Devotional Reading and Popular Poetry in Good Words

  5. The Poetics of Popular Poetry in the Argosy

Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?

Appendix B: Biographies of Significant Contributors, Illustrators, and Publishers

Works Cited

Index

What People are Saying About This

Reading poetry and the mass medium of Victorian periodicals interactively, Ehnes moves poetry and periodical studies into new terrain. Both canonical and noncanonical, male and female poets, figure in her groundbreaking book, which details poetry’s relation to class markers and identifies the hitherto ignored subgenre of the "inaugural poem" among many other illuminations.

Linda K. Hughes

Reading poetry and the mass medium of Victorian periodicals interactively, Ehnes moves poetry and periodical studies into new terrain. Both canonical and noncanonical, male and female poets, figure in her groundbreaking book, which details poetry’s relation to class markers and identifies the hitherto ignored subgenre of the "inaugural poem" among many other illuminations.

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