1st Edition
Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895 Genre, Gender and Criticism
By Marianne Van Remoortel
Copyright 2011
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a series of representative case studies, Marianne Van Remoortel traces the development of the sonnet during intense moments of change and stability, continuity and conflict, from the early Romantic period to the end of the nineteenth century. Paying particular attention to the role of the popular press, which served as a venue of innovation and as a site of recruitment for aspiring authors, Van... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Invaluable Commodities: Sonnets in the World; Chapter 2 The Secret Life of the Della Cruscan Sonnet: Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad; Chapter 3 The Sonnet Parodies of Coleridge and his Circle; Chapter 4 Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and Women's Sonnets of the 1800s'“1840s; Chapter 5 The Inconstancy of Genre: Meredith's Modern Love; Chapter 6 Metaphor and Maternity: Rossetti's House of Life and Webster's Mother and Daughter; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Marianne Van Remoortel is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium.
'This book is a cogent, well-written, and valuable addition to sonnet studies... Van Remoortel carefully constructs a history of the sonnet that recontextualizes its gender dynamics.' New Books Online 19 ’... Van Remoortel’s writing is lively and descriptive...’ Times Literary Supplement '... the main route that Lives of the Sonnet takes through the genre proves so rewarding. Van Remoortel demonstrates, again and again, that the most coherent view of the nineteenth-century sonnet emerges only by accounting for the genre’s tremendous diversity. [...] Lives of the Sonnet emerges as a judicious and thoughtful guide, showing the reader how nineteenth-century sonneteers navigated this complex landscape.' Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 'Lives of the Sonnet is rich with information about the marketing of nineteenth-century sonnets and offers helpful new methods of understanding the sonnet’s relationship to gender today.' Victorian Studies ’Lives of the Sonnet is a fascinating exposition that proposes a new literary history.’ BARS Review
