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Victorian Poetry
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.166  Number of Followers: 11  Subscription journalISSN (Print) 0042-5206 - ISSN (Online) 1530-7190 Published by Project MUSE  [305 journals]
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- Introduction: The Place of Victorian Poetry
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Abstract: “The future of poetry is immense.” So claimed Matthew Arnold in “The Study of Poetry” originally published in 1880 as the general introduction to The English Poets, edited by T. H. Ward. Arnold went on to encourage his readers to “conceive of [poetry] as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete.”1“The Study of Poetry” is perhaps most notable not for those English poets Arnold excludes from the narrow confines of the “classic”—Chaucer, Pope, Burns, and all the Romantics ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Keeping Faith in Victorian Poetry
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Abstract: I felt honored to be one of the young scholars invited in 2003 to contribute to the special issue of this journal, “Whither Victorian Poetry'” on the current and future state of the field. Taking its title from Tennyson, my essay, “A Bounded Field: Situating Victorian Poetry in the Literary Landscape,” argued that studies of Victorian poetry tended to look inward rather than reaching across temporal, geographic, and generic boundaries. Focusing on the surge of interest in female Victorian poets that had begun about fifteen years earlier, I noted the critical tendency to consider those poets primarily either in isolation or in relationship to each other, and I urged the importance of studying them in relation to a ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Reflections on Twenty Years in Victorian Poetry
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Abstract: When I received the invitation to contribute to this special issue, I did three things. Inspired by John Lamb’s idea, borrowed from Tim Ingold, that “we know as we go, not before we go,” I diagrammed my journey as a scholar and teacher over the last twenty years.1 Then I read the whole “Whither Victorian Poetry'” special issue from 2003 and most of the articles that have appeared in Victorian Poetry in the last five years. I was curious: Where did we think we were headed, back then, and where are we now' This essay is about the observations that arose from this non-exhaustive, admittedly idiosyncratic bit of research. In a nutshell, “Whither Victorian Poetry'” was amazingly prescient of what came afterward, for me ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Victorian Women’s Poetry and the Near-Death Experience of a Category
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Abstract: Whatever we plan, the future will deal with it in its own way.In her introduction to “Whither Victorian Poetry'” Linda K. Hughes formulated the purpose of the special edition as a collective endeavor to “conceive and reconfigure the field” (459). Looking at the table of contents of Victorian Poetry and the Guides to the Year’s Work since 2003, it is clear that the field was reconfigured in ways that the writers predicted but also in ways they did not foresee. My vision that a vast cohort of forgotten women poets would be unearthed through archival research and studied and taught, bringing entirely new insights into what the lyric meant in the Victorian period, especially outside professional literary circles, did ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Undisciplining Art Sisterhood
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Abstract: When asked to contribute to “Whither Victorian Poetry'” in 2003, I was fortunate to benefit from feminist scholarship that sought to understand the networks of support and collaboration between Romantic and Victorian women poets and visual artists.1 Additionally, cultural studies on word-and-image history and interpretation brought attention to the gender, class, and political dynamics that shaped the theory and reception of the fine arts in Britain as well as the creation of national art institutions.2 My essay addressed ways that women poets and art critics capitalized on the gender and genre hierarchies of sister arts discourse to celebrate the reality of women’s professional success.3 My current research ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Photography, Novelty, and Victorian Poetry
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Abstract: Returning to my essay—“Consigned to Sepia: Remembering Victorian Poetry”—takes me back to a significant moment in the history of Victorian poetry criticism. It was a moment crystallized in many ways by Isobel Armstrong’s generative provocation to think Victorian poetry anew in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, Politics (1993). Victorian poetry was an uneven and various political art form that required new critical methods, Armstrong argued. The readings that she enlisted to make her case for the aesthetic and political complexity of a selection of poems by Tennyson, Barrett Browning, Browning, Arnold, and others, modeled a process of “double reading” that revealed the experimental and epistemological reflexivity ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Poetry, Politics, Possibilities
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Abstract: My title is meant both as an homage to the subtitle of Isobel Armstrong’s foundational study, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, Politics, and as an evocation of the possibilities this group of scholars saw twenty years ago and those we see today. In preparing to write this essay, I reread the “Whither Victorian Poetry'” 2003 special issue and I was struck by three things. First, the topics and methodologies most frequently called for by the issue’s contributors became important trends in the field in the intervening twenty years. Second, two of the most important current methods in the field—anti-racist scholarship and ecocriticism—were much less frequently mentioned in the issue. Third, many contributors ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Reaching Wider: Anecdotes from a Victorianist in the Australian Archive
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Abstract: Twenty years ago, when asked where the field of Victorian poetry was headed, my answer focused on methodology and a term—“cultural neoformalism”—that seemed useful in situating my own doctoral work in relation to the field.1 I was just young enough to have witnessed the aftermath of disciplinary acrimony among historicists, formalists, and theorists (the so-called culture wars of the 1980s), and the yoking of cultural studies to formalist methods seemed like a way out of the woods and on to greener pastures.2 A Rutgers University conference organized by Meredith McGill in 2002 on “The Traffic in Poems” had showcased scholarship in a transatlantic frame and a range of methods that largely reflected this intersection ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Women and Light Verse: On May Kendall
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Abstract: Several years ago, I wrote in Victorian Poetry about the long history and shifting critical conceptions of light verse, or what for much of the nineteenth century was called vers de société.1 This was verse typically set in a refined social milieu, with a male speaker, and having the qualities of what one nineteenth-century critic, Frederic Locker-Lampson, called “brevity and buoyancy.”2 Exploring the work of practitioners and critics of the form, I noted that a specifically comic register, while never excluded, was not viewed as its essential characteristic until the early twentieth century. Before then, vers de société “dwelled in a conceptual middle ground defined by balance and detachment—emotional, formal ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Reading Victorian Poetry as the World Burns
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Abstract: I write this in summer 2023 as an unprecedented heatwave burns up nearby southern Europe and beyond. Climate change has become a frightening reality in data that has already, this year, provided evidence of endless “firsts” or “highests.” In this context, why read Victorian poetry' Who cares, and why should anyone care' This is a particularly pertinent question to ask at the sixtieth anniversary of the journal Victorian Poetry, whose leadership has shaped the field under the fine stewardship of John Lamb, and which is about to pass to a new editor-in-chief.In the 2002 issue (revisited in this present issue), I wrote about the category of “women’s poetry”: what is a “woman poet” and, crucially, how did that concept ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Analog Intelligence
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Abstract: Twenty summers, with the length of twenty long winters: it’s a little epoch, the two decades that have passed since the “Whither Victorian Poetry'” issue appeared. Back then, I stressed the importance of physical books and their place within our institutions and our field, with a weather eye on the rapidly evolving digital technologies that were poised to transform our apprehension of the historical materials we study as scholars of Victorian poetry. Have they ever. As we look ahead through the thicket of social media towards the AI-generated text-and-mediascape that is just around the corner, we may find the nineteenth-century material record more urgently necessary than before. In 2023, scholars, teachers, and ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Victorian Poetry in an Age of Cultural Secularization
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Abstract: Twenty years ago, as a graduate student about to test the academic job market, I was thrilled to be invited to speculate about the future of Victorian poetry alongside a set of brilliant early-career scholars. Looking back on that special issue today as a middle-aged professor, I again find myself gratified by the brilliancy of my colleagues, most of whose essays have aged beautifully. My own contribution to that special issue, by contrast, has aged less well, partly because I took for granted the ongoing institutional health of the humanities in twenty-first-century higher education. Anyone who has been paying attention to public discourses about education in the intervening years (at least in the States) will ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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- Whithering: Or ’Tis Twenty Years Since
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Abstract: I open by paying tribute to John Lamb, the outgoing editor of Victorian Poetry, who suggested the idea—a brilliant one—for this special issue back in 2022. The collected essays it gathers comprise a fitting capstone to his editorship of Victorian Poetry from 2005 to 2023.This afterword appends a meta-retrospect to the retrospects (as well as the forward-looking prospects) on Victorian poetry scholarship the issue’s gifted contributors offer. Rather than responding to each “Whither Redux” commentary in turn, I focus on the larger impressions and cumulative status report on the fortunes of Victorian poetry they form. One happy revelation from the special issue is that so many of the nascent scholars who contributed ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-29T00:00:00-05:00
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