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The Victorian Verse-Novel - Aspiring to Life (Hardcover)
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The Victorian Verse-Novel - Aspiring to Life (Hardcover)
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The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a
hybrid generic form, the verse-novel, in the second half of the
nineteenth century. Such poems combined epic length with novelistic
plots in the attempt to capture not a heroic past but the quotidian
present. Victorian verse-novels also tended to be rough-mixed,
their narrative sections interspersed with shorter, lyrical verses
in varied measures. In flouting the rules of contemporary genre
theory, which saw poetry as the purview of the eternal and ideal
and relegated the everyday to the domain of novelistic prose,
verse-novels proved well suited to upsetting other hierarchies, as
well, including those of gender and class. The genre's radical
energies often emerge from the competition between lyric and
narrative drives, between the desire for transcendence and the
quest to find meaning in what happens next; the unusual marriage
plots that structure such poems prove crucibles of these rival
forces. Generic tensions also yield complex attitudes towards time
and space: the book's first half considers the temporality of love,
while its second looks at generic geography through the engagement
of novels in verse with Europe and the form's transatlantic
travels. Both well-known verse-novels (Elizabeth Barrett Browning's
Aurora Leigh, Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage, Coventry
Patmore's The Angel in the House) and lesser-known examples are
read closely alongside a few nearly related works (Tennyson's
Idylls of the King, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book). An
Afterword traces the verse-novel's substantial influence on the
modernist novel.
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