{"product_id":"the-gothic-forms-of-victorian-poetry-9781474487184","title":"The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Olivia Loksing Moy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Gothic \u0026amp; Romance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from 1790s novels and tales exploded onto the English literary scene in 'low-brow' titles of Gothic romance. Surprisingly, however, they also re-emerged as features of major Victorian poems from the 1830s to 1870s. Such signature tropes -- inquisitional overhearing; female confinement and the damsel in distress; supernatural switches between living and dead bodies -- were transfigured into poetic forms that we recognise and teach today as canonically Victorian. \u003ci\u003eThe Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e identifies a poetics of Gothic enclosure constitutive of high Victorian poetry that came to define key nineteenth-century poetic forms, from the dramatic monologue, to women's sonnet sequences and metasonnets, to Pre-Raphaelite picture poems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45608200929431,"sku":"9781474487184","price":3785.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781474487184.webp?v=1768599620","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-gothic-forms-of-victorian-poetry-9781474487184","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}