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Compass Points for Victorian Poetry Studies: 2002–2004 and Beyond
Author(s) -
Hughes Linda K.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00036.x
Subject(s) - poetry , scholarship , ideology , relation (database) , literature , aesthetics , sociology , psychology , history , art , computer science , law , political science , politics , database
Drawing upon four book‐length studies published in 2002 and two forthcoming special issues devoted to the future of Victorian poetry scholarship, the present article charts three prospective directions for study. Neoformalism – renewed interest in form – addresses the cultural ideologies that are exposed, challenged, and performed by genre, meter, and other formal elements. Investigations of poetry in relation to (or as) a technology also continue to quicken. Reconfiguring Victorian poetry's body of work through alternate organizing principles, for example, transatlantic exchanges, is also ongoing, as are fresh approaches to human bodies (whether in sexual or environmental terms) that these poems represent.