This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its
author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and
contemporary contexts.
* 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
Table of Content
Preface vi
Part I: So Far as The Words Are Concerned 1
1 Words, Words, Words and More Words 3
2 Rhyming/Repeating 55
3 Making Noise/Noising Truths 73
4 These Rhyming/Repeating Games Are Serious 108
Part II: Contents and Discontents of The Forms 149
5 Down-Sizing 151
6 Selving 189
7 Fleshly Feelings 259
8 Mourning and Melancholia 323
9 Modernizing The Subject 409
10 Victorian Modernismus 463
Index 504
About the author
Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Language and Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His publications include Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel (1975), In The Reading Gaol: Postmodernity, Texts, and History (Blackwell, 1994), The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (ed., Blackwell, 2000), and Reading After Theory (Blackwell, 2002).
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