Victorian Poetry Now Poets Poems Poetics Valentine Cunninghamauth by Valentine Cunningham(auth.) 9780631208266, 9781444340440, 0631208267, 1444340441 instant download after payment.

• Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poems
• Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their  works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems
• Reads poems and poets in the light of both Victorian and modern critical concerns
• Places poetry in its personal, aesthetic, historical, and ideological context
• Organized in terms of the Victorian anxieties of self, body, and melancholy
• Argues that rhyming/repetition is the major formal feature of Victorian poetry
• Highlights the Victorian obsession with small subjects in small poems
• Shows how Victorian poetry attempts to engage with the modern subject and how its modernity segues into modernism and postmodernism

Content:
Chapter 1 Words, Words, Words and More Words (pages 1–54):
Chapter 2 Rhyming/Repeating (pages 55–72):
Chapter 3 Making Noise/Noising Truths (pages 73–107):
Chapter 4 These Rhyming/Repeating Games are Serious (pages 108–148):
Chapter 5 Down?Sizing (pages 149–188):
Chapter 6 Selving (pages 189–258):
Chapter 7 Fleshly Feelings (pages 259–322):
Chapter 8 Mourning and Melancholia (pages 323–408):
Chapter 9 Modernizing the Subject (pages 409–462):
Chapter 10 Victorian Modernismus (pages 463–503):