Introduction

The Victorian Verse-Novel ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198718864.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Stefanie Markovits

Keyword(s):

Genre Theory ◽

Common Language ◽

Short History ◽

Frequent Use ◽

Long Form ◽

Aurora Leigh ◽

History Of ◽

To Come ◽

Verse Novel

“Introduction: A Short History of a Long Form” introduces the verse-novel by describing its major features—including its contemporaneity (in contrast to epic), its storytelling impulse, its frequent use of interpolated lyric verses (“rough-mixing”), and its preference for common language—against the backdrop of Victorian genre theory and recent accounts of the period’s poetic genres. Focusing on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh, an early and influential example of the form, the Introduction suggests how Victorian writers self-consciously used the generic indeterminacy of the verse-novel to contest social as well as literary norms and express a broad range of cultural concerns. It also traces some of the prior hybrid experiments that influenced the rise of the verse-novel at mid-century and offers a preview of the chapters to come.

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Some Aspects of the Position of Aboriginal Women in Australian Society

The Aboriginal Child at School ◽

10.1017/s0310582200013730 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 32-60

Author(s):

M.A. Vazey

Keyword(s):

Turn Of The Century ◽

Mutual Understanding ◽

Short History ◽

Australian Society ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Aboriginal Women ◽

History Of ◽

To Come

This paper includes a short history of Aboriginal women in Australia from about the turn of the century. This has been made possible by the writings of such women. Most non-Aboriginal women have been and are ignorant of this history. They need to understand this past in order to come to terms with it. Aboriginal women are also not aware of how misinformed non-Aboriginal women are of the role of Aboriginal women in their own society. An extensive dialogue is needed to develop the mutual understanding necessary for the construction of a peaceful and just post-colonial Australia.

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The Victorian Verse-Novel

10.1093/oso/9780198718864.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefanie Markovits

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Genre Theory ◽

Substantial Influence ◽

Time And Space ◽

The Everyday ◽

Aurora Leigh ◽

Modernist Novel ◽

Verse Novel ◽

Idylls Of The King

This book considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the verse-novel, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Such poems combined epic length with novelistic plots in the attempt to capture not a heroic past but the quotidian present. Victorian verse-novels also tended to be rough-mixed, their narrative sections interspersed with shorter, lyrical verses in varied measures. In flouting the rules of contemporary genre theory, which saw poetry as the purview of the eternal and ideal and relegated the everyday to the domain of novelistic prose, verse-novels proved well suited to upsetting other hierarchies, as well, including those of gender and class. The genre’s radical energies often emerge from the competition between lyric and narrative drives, between the desire for transcendence and the quest to find meaning in what happens next; the unusual marriage plots that structure such poems prove crucibles of these rival forces. Generic tensions also yield complex attitudes toward time and space: the book’s first half considers the temporality of love, while its second looks at generic geography through the engagement of novels in verse with Europe and the form’s transatlantic travels. Both well-known verse-novels (Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh, Arthur Hugh Clough’s Amours de Voyage, Coventry Patmore’s The Angel in the House) and lesser-known examples are read closely alongside a few nearly related works (Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book). An Afterword traces the verse-novel’s substantial influence on the modernist novel.

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Social Entrepreneurship

Making Change ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190849795.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 3-9

Author(s):

Tina P. Kruse

Keyword(s):

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Social Enterprise ◽

Short History ◽

History Of ◽

Basic Concepts ◽

To Come

This chapter provides a short history of social entrepreneurship in order to frame up a discussion of youth-centered social entrepreneurship. The chapter explores the basic concepts and foundational elements of social entrepreneurship as a whole before differentiating it with youth social entrepreneurship. It includes a description of early movements of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. The reader who is new to the field of social entrepreneurship will find this chapter to be an appropriate introduction, while readers who are more experienced in this area will find it to be a review that shapes the explorations of youth social entrepreneurship to come.

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The Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing

Ravnetrykk ◽

10.7557/15.5508 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Leif Longva

Keyword(s):

Scholarly Publishing ◽

The Internet ◽

Short History ◽

Dissemination Of Research ◽

History Of ◽

To Come

The series of annual Munin Conferences was born in 2006. This is a short history of how it happened, and how the conference has developed over the years, step by step, into one of the most important conferences in Europe within its scope. Scholarly publishing is an important part of, and a prerequisite for progress in research. The advent of the Internet has given options for dramatic changes in the process of publishing and the dissemination of research. This has given the Munin Conferences ample issues to debate over the years, and, most likely, the years to come.

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