Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse. Their varied efforts are recognisably akin, not least in their development of mixed verse-forms that fused novel and epic to create something equal to the miscellaneousness of the age.

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Centre for Public Christianity, Australia

Natasha Moore

About the author

Natasha Moore is Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity in Sydney, Australia. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held research fellowships at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Sydney, and the University of Delaware.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Victorian Poetry and Modern Life
Book Subtitle: The Unpoetical Age
Authors: Natasha Moore
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137537805
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53779-9Published: 31 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53780-5Published: 26 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 239
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: A Poem of the Age

The Modern and the Everyday

The Long Narrative Poem

The Marriage Plot

The Uses of Genre

Ends

Postscript: Finding a Form for Modern Love

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