Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61) became one of the most celebrated and original poets
of the Victorian period. She began writing from a precociously young age, publishing her first …

This book delivers an introduction and overview of developing intersections between digital
methods and literary studies. The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies serves as a …

In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated
metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained …

Love begets poetry; poetry begets love. So thinkers from Plato onwards have claimed; and
even today, when poetry has largely disappeared from the mainstream of popular culture, it …

Valedictory addresses offer a way to conceptualize the relation of self to others, private to
public, ephemeral to eternal. Whether deathbed pronouncements, political capitulations, or …

Uses of “poetry” and “prose” as literary categories have shifted dramatically over the last two
or three centuries: a dichotomy emerged between these two that had not existed before, at …

Don Juan's numerals are inescapable: its numbered cantos and stanzas allow us to track
the poem's growing chain of ottava rima, even as figures appear prominently within the …

Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry's relation to time
and argues that this relation is historically contingent–as the concept of time changes, so too …

Abstract Plotting Heterosocial Possibility in the Victorian Novel explores the politics and
narrative dynamics of heterosociality as an imagined alternative to the marriage plot in the …

This dissertation argues that the perception and representation of the seemingly objective
details that proliferate in Victorian literature and aesthetics are modes for the constitution of …