{"product_id":"crime-in-verse-ellen-l-obrien-9780814257425","title":"Crime in Verse: The Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era","description":"Over the last few decades, Victorian scholars have produced many nuanced studies connecting the politics of crime to the generic developments of the novel--and vice versa. Ellen L. O'Brien's \u003ci\u003eCrime in Verse\u003c\/i\u003e grants the same attention and status to poetic representations of crime. Considering the literary achievements and cultural engagements of poetry while historicizing murder's entanglement in legal fictions, punitive practices, medical theories, class conflicts, and gender codes, O'Brien argues that shifting approaches to poetry and conflicted understandings of murder allowed poets to align problems of legal and literary interpretation in provocative, disruptive, and innovative ways. \u003cbr\u003e Developing focused analyses of generic and discursive meanings, individual chapters examine the classed politics of crime and punishment in the broadside ballad, the epistemological tensions of homicidal lunacy and criminal responsibility in the dramatic monologue, and the legal and ideological frictions of domestic violence in the verse novel and verse drama. Their juxtaposition of the rhymes of anonymous street balladeers, the underexamined verse of \"minor\" poets, and the familiar poems of canonical figures suggests the interactive and intertextual relationships informing poetic agendas and political arguments. As it simultaneously reconsiders the institutional and ideological status of murder and the aesthetic and political interests of poetry, \u003ci\u003eCrime in Verse\u003c\/i\u003e offers new ways of thinking about Victorian poetry's contents and contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellen L. O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814257429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814257425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Ellen L. O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094202798335,"sku":"9780814257425","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5cf10092-07a5-43c5-b64c-670881e42b87.jpg?v=1724843983","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crime-in-verse-ellen-l-obrien-9780814257425","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}