{"product_id":"love-among-the-poets-the-victorian-poetics-of-intimacy-hardback-9780821425442","title":"Love Among the Poets; The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy (Hardback) 9780821425442","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLove Among the Poets\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Victorian Poetics of Intimacy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePearl Chaozon Bauer (Edited by), Erik Gray (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821425442\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 2 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.467 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis beautiful book offers a much-needed return to one of the most essential literary genres, showing the many, varied, and often surprising ways in which intimate relations constituted and were constituted through Victorian poetry. Offering innovative and original perspectives, it transforms our sense of a field we thought we already knew. - Marion Thain, King's College London\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritish literature of the Victorian period has always been celebrated for the quality, innovativeness, and sheer profusion of its love poetry. Every major Victorian poet produced notable poems about love. This includes not only canonical figures, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti, but also lesser-known poets whose works have only recently become widely recognized and studied, such as Augusta Webster and the many often anonymous working-class poets whose verses filled the pages of popular periodicals. Modern critics have claimed, convincingly, that love poetry is not just one strain of Victorian poetry among many; it is arguably its representative, even definitive, mode.\u003cbr\u003e This collection of essays reconsiders the Victorian poetry of love and, just as importantly, of intimacy-a more inclusive term that comprehends not only romance but love for family, for God, for animals, and for language itself. Together the essays seek to define a poetics of intimacy that arose during the Victorian period and that continues today, a set of poetic structures and strategies by which poets can represent and encode feelings of love.\u003cbr\u003e There exist many studies of intimate relations (especially marriage) in Victorian novels. But although poetry rivals the novel in the depth and diversity of its treatment of love, marriage, and intimacy, that aspect of Victorian verse has remained underexamined. \u003ci\u003eLove among the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e offers an expansive critical overview. With its slate of distinguished contributors, including scholars from the US, Canada, Britain, and Australia, the volume is a wide-ranging account of this vital era of poetry and of its importance for the way we continue to write, love, and live today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Counting the Ways of Love in Victorian Poetry\u003cbr\u003e Erik Gray and Pearl Chaozon Bauer\u003cbr\u003e I. Dualities\u003cbr\u003e Christina Rossetti’s Echoes\u003cbr\u003e Eros and the Victorian Double Poem\u003cbr\u003e Stephanie L. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e The Revival of Courtly Love, 1850–1870\u003cbr\u003e Allegory, Anachronism, and Violence\u003cbr\u003e Matthew Rowlinson\u003cbr\u003e Love Charms\u003cbr\u003e Herbert F. Tucker\u003cbr\u003e The Erotics of Sprung Rhythm\u003cbr\u003e Erik Gray\u003cbr\u003e II. Courtship and Marriage\u003cbr\u003e  Love on the Factory Floor\u003cbr\u003e Working-Class Poets and Factory Courtship Verse\u003cbr\u003e Kirstie Blair\u003cbr\u003e “All on the Threshold”\u003cbr\u003e Christina Rossetti’s Revisionary Epithalamia\u003cbr\u003e Pearl Chaozon Bauer\u003cbr\u003e The Mathematics of Marriage\u003cbr\u003e Augusta Webster’s Combinatory and Fractional Intimacy\u003cbr\u003e Amy Kahrmann Huseby\u003cbr\u003e III. Beyond Erotic Intimacy\u003cbr\u003e Intimacy and the Neologistic Imagination in Hardy and Hopkins\u003cbr\u003e Veronica Alfano\u003cbr\u003e The Secret History of the Sonnet\u003cbr\u003e The Poetics of Maternal Love in Augusta Webster’s Mother and Daughter\u003cbr\u003e Josie Billington\u003cbr\u003e The Poetics of Cross-Species Love\u003cbr\u003e Julia F. Saville\u003cbr\u003e Yeats’s Intimacies\u003cbr\u003e Francis O’Gorman\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681744843032,"sku":"9780821425442","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/love-among-the-poets-the-victorian-poetics-of-intimacy-hardback-9780821425442","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}