Victorian Poetry and Modern Life: The Unpoetical Age

by Natasha Moore

Overview

Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse. Their varied efforts are recognisably akin, not least in their development of mixed verse-forms that fused novel and epic to create something equal to the miscellaneousness of the age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137537799
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/02/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	239
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Natasha Moore is Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity in Sydney, Australia. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held research fellowships at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Sydney, and the University of Delaware.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Poem of the Age

1. The Modern and the Everyday

2. The Long Narrative Poem

3. The Marriage Plot

4. The Uses of Genre

Ends

Postscript: Finding a form for modern love

Notes

Works Cited

Index