Victoriographies Volume 10, Issue 1, guest edited.
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27Z_OP_B2503
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/vic/10/1
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Serena Trowbridge and Dinah Roe (Oxford Brookes) were invited by the Editors of Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914, a respected scholarly journal in the field of Victorian studies, to co-edit a special issue for Spring 2020 (Vol. 10.1) to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Poems. After some initial research concerning the scope and ambitions for the special issue, three scholars were invited to contribute papers focusing on the poems published in the 1870 edition; Roe and Trowbridge also each contributed a paper, and jointly wrote the introduction.
Trowbridge’s paper, ‘The very sky and sea-line of her soul’: Nature, Destruction, and Desire in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Poems’, offered an original approach to Rossetti’s poems, acknowledging that nature in his work seems relegated to an aesthetic function, where the natural world is allied to the female figure. This essay argued for a more complex and nuanced relationship between the poet and his poetic figures. Rossetti wrote of his concern that his poems should be free of ‘painter’s tendencies’, and though the parallels between his paintings and his poems have been explored thoroughly, there remained an unexplored disjunction in his depictions of the natural world, which serves a different, less aesthetic, and more intricate function in many of the poems. This approach is traced particularly through ‘The House of Life’ sonnet sequence, providing a fresh approach rooted in modern eco-criticism.
The editorial duties were equally divided, with both editors collaborating on the Introduction, in which Trowbridge outlined some of the current research and thinking on Rossetti’s Poems, as well as half of the chapter outlines, while Roe offered a literature review and the other half of the outlines. Consequently each editor’s total written contribution was c.11,000 words.
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- Non-English
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