Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics

Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers a range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship, provoking innovative discussions into the poetic form, gender dynamics, political engagement, and networked communities of Pre-Raphaelitism. The authors in this collection position Pre-Raphaelite poetics broadly in the sense of poiesis, or acts of making, aiming to identify and explore the Pre-Raphaelites' diverse forms of making: social, aesthetic, gendered, and sacred. Each chapter examines how Pre-Raphaelitism takes up and explores modes of making and re-making identity, relationality, moral transformations, and even, time and space. Essays explore themes of formalist or prosodic approaches, expanded networks of literary and artistic influence within Pre-Raphaelitism, and critical legacies and responses to Pre-Raphaelite poetry and arts, codifying the methods, forms, and commonalties that constitute literary Pre-Raphaelitism.

Offers of broad range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship extending beyond consideration of Pre-Raphaelite visual and material arts Illustrates the plurality of Pre-Raphaelite poetics connecting the literary work to social and political life at the time Reexamines Romantic poets as Pre-Raphaelites and considers Pre-Raphaelitism's influence on Aesthetes and Decadents

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Heather Bozant Witcher is Assistant Professor at Auburn University at Montgomery, USA. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century poetics, collaboration, and sociability, as well as archival theory and digital humanities.

Amy Kahrmann Huseby is Assistant Teaching Professor at Florida International University, USA, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century poetics, gender and sexuality, race and empire, and the history of science.

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Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers a range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship, provoking innovative discussions into the poetic form, gender dynamics, political engagement, and networked communities of Pre-Raphaelitism. The authors in this collection position Pre-Raphaelite poetics broadly in the sense of poiesis, or acts of making, aiming to identify and explore the Pre-Raphaelites diverse forms of making: social, aesthetic, gendered, and sacred. Each chapter examines how Pre-Raphaelitism takes up and explores modes of making and re-making identity, relationality, moral transformations, and even, time and space. Essays explore themes of formalist or prosodic approaches, expanded networks of literary and artistic influence within Pre-Raphaelitism, and critical legacies and responses to Pre-Raphaelite poetry and arts, codifying the methods, forms, and commonalties that constitute literary Pre-Raphaelitism.

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Introduction: Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics, Heather Bozant Witcher and Amy Kahrmann Huseby.- Chapter 1: Gender Work: The Political Stakes of Pre-Raphaelitism by Heather Bozant Witcher and Amy Kahrmann Huseby.- Chapter 2: Investigating Intersexuality: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and the Hermaphrodite Self by John Holmes.- Chapter 3: Second Generation Pre-Raphaelitism: The Poetry of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine by Florence Boos.- Chapter 4: Of Chivalry, and deeds of might: Reviving Frederic George Stephens's 'lost' Arthurian Poem by Robert Wilkes.- Chapter 5: Musico-literary Pre-Raphaelite Poetry by Mary Arseneau.- Chapter 6: Christina Rossetti's Emblematic Poetics by Heather McAlpine.- Chapter 7: Elizabeth Siddall: Pre-Raphaelitism, Poetry, Prosody by Serena Trowbridge.- Chapter 8: Swinburne's Pre-Raphaelite Poetics by Elizabeth Helsinger.- Chapter 9 Afar from my own self I seem: D.H. Lawrence, Persephone and Pre-Raphaelite Poetics by Hannah Comer.- Chapter 10: Afterword by Dinah Roe.