The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry

Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms Explores authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and G.M. HopkinsShows genre formation as a process that occurs dynamically not only across periods, but across genres and class lines A 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. The