Victorian Poetry and Poetics: Media, Form, Empire

For our March session, the accent falls on Victorian poetry, media/sound studies, and the poetics of empire.

In this session, we will cover the following readings:

Christina Rossetti, "In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857”

Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands”

Alfred Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

Sound recordings made by Victorian actors and elocutionists

Tricia Lootens, The Political Poetess

Jerome McGann, Poetics of Sensibility

Moderators:
Jason Camlot, Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, Concordia University
Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of English (LTA), Concordia University