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Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian Poetics Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that asserts the fundamental importance of popular periodical poetry to our understanding of Victorian poetics. Reading the poetry of un-anthologised, unnamed and underappreciated poets alongside that of Tennyson, Barrett Browning and Rossetti, Ehnes argues that the popular poet is not a marginal poet: he, and especially she, occupies the centre of literary culture, producing the poetry consumed by the majority of Victorian readers. Key Features Provides an invaluable index of the poetry published in the periodicalsIncludes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussedAnalyses periodicals including Macmillan's Magazine, Charles Dickens's Household Words and All the Year Round, Once a Week, William Thackeray's Cornhill, the religious periodical Good Words, and the Argosy each as separate case study

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"Ehnes's deft attention to the literary and visual poetics of periodical poetry demonstrates its significance and should encourage others to further explore this cultural archive. --Natalie M. Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell ""Victorian Periodicals Review """

"Ehnes's deft attention to the literary and visual poetics of periodical poetry demonstrates its significance and should encourage others to further explore this cultural archive.--Natalie M. Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell ""Victorian Periodicals Review"" Reading poetry and the mass medium of Victorian periodicals interactively, Ehnes moves poetry and periodical studies into new terrain. Both canonical and noncanonical, male and female poets, figure in her groundbreaking book, which details poetry's relation to class markers and identifies the hitherto ignored subgenre of the ""inaugural poem"" among many other illuminations.-- ""Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature, TCU, Fort Worth"" Well-written and carefully researched [...] convincingly argues for further work in the field to which it has contributed.--Simon Rennie, University of Exeter ""Tennyson Research Bulletin"""

Ehnes's deft attention to the literary and visual poetics of periodical poetry demonstrates its significance and should encourage others to further explore this cultural archive. --Natalie M. Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell Victorian Periodicals Review

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Caley Ehnes (PhD) received her doctorate from the University of Victoria (Canada). She currently teaches English literature and composition at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook, British Columbia. She has published articles on periodical poetry in Women’s Writing, Victorian Review, and Victorian Periodicals Review, and she co-edited an issue of Victorian Poetry in 2014.

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