Victorian
Metre, History, Context: Introduction to the Metre Matters Cluster
By , University of Exeter (February 2009)
Sections: Victorian
Subjects: Literature, Romanticism, Victorian Literature.
People: Wordsworth, William , Browning, Robert , Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1900-1999.
Abstract
This article introduces a cluster drawing material from the recent conference Metre Matters: New Approaches to Prosody, 1780–1914. It comprises this introduction by Jason David Hall and six articles presented at the conference, whose aim was to address renewed scholarly interest in versification and form across the long nineteenth century, as well as some of the methodologies underpinning it. The papers included in the cluster look both to the minutiae of Romantic and Victorian metres and to their cultural intertexts. The conference, hosted by the University of Exeter's Centre for Victorian Studies, was held 3–5 July 2008.
The cluster is made up of the following articles:
Jason David Hall, ‘Metre, History, Context: Introduction to the Metre Matters Cluster’.
Emma Mason and Rhian Williams, ‘Reciprocal Scansion in Wordsworth's “There Was a Boy” ’.
Ross Wilson, ‘Robert Browning's Compounds’.
Margaret A. Loose, ‘The Internationalism of Ernest Jones's Dialectical Prosody’.
Nancy Jiwon Cho, ‘Gender and Authority in British Women Hymn-Writers’ Use of Metre, 1760–1900’.
Ashley Miller, ‘Involuntary Metrics and the Physiology of Memory’.
Summer Star, ‘ “For the Inscape's Sake”: Sounding the Self in the Metres of Gerard Manley Hopkins’.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00613.x
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