Writing with "one hand for the booksellers": Victorian Poetry and the Illustrated Literary Periodical of the 1860s

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dc.contributor.authorEhnes, Caley Liane
dc.contributor.supervisorChapman, Alison
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-28T22:12:33Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-05-28
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of English
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractFocusing on the poetry published in the Cornhill, Once a Week, Good Words, and the Argosy, four of the most prominent illustrated literary periodicals of the 1860s, this dissertation contends that the popular poetry found in mid-century periodicals is not only essential to our understanding of the periodical press, but also that the periodical is integral to our understanding of Victorian poetics. Each chapter examines the poetry and poetics of a single periodical title and addresses several key issues related to the publication of poetry in the periodical press: the power and influence of illustrated poetry in contemporary visual culture, the intended audience of the literary periodical and the issues that raises for editors and poets, the sociology and networks of print, and the ways in which periodical poetry participated in contemporary debates about prosody. This dissertation thus offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that asserts the centrality of the periodical and popular poetry. In other words, it argues that without a consideration of the vital importance of periodical poetry, Victorian poetry studies is quite simply anachronistic.en_US
dc.description.embargo2018-12-31
dc.description.proquestcode0593en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0391en_US
dc.description.proquestemailcaley.ehnes@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationPortions of chapter two, “The Modern Mode of Poetry and Illustration in Once a Week,” first appeared as “Navigating the Periodical Market: Once a Week, Poetry, and the Illustrated Literary Periodical” in Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature Number 123, Spring 2013, 96–112.en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationPortions of chapter three, “Devotional Reading and Popular Poetry in Good Words,” first appeared as “Religion, Readership, and the Periodical Press: The Place of Poetry in Good Words” in Victorian Periodicals Review Volume 45, issue 4, Winter 2012, 466–87.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5298
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectPoetryen_US
dc.subjectVictorianen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth-Centuryen_US
dc.subjectPeriodical Pressen_US
dc.subjectIllustrationen_US
dc.subjectPoeticsen_US
dc.subjectCornhillen_US
dc.subjectOnce a Weeken_US
dc.subjectArgosyen_US
dc.subjectGood Wordsen_US
dc.titleWriting with "one hand for the booksellers": Victorian Poetry and the Illustrated Literary Periodical of the 1860sen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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