Novel-Poetry
The Shape of the Real and the Problem of Form
Emily Allen and Dino Franco Felluga

Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel—a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain's nineteenth century—to make a larger claim about the nature of genre and formal structures for time, action, and identity that cross genres. The volume uncovers trajectories of literary influence that structure our approach to literature and affect how we shape our lives, lives which are often constrained by cause-and-effect and narrative-driven ways of approaching time and possibility.
Emily Allen specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, especially the Victorian novel, and is an affiliated faculty member in Purdue University's programs for Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Professor Allen is also the author of Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (The Ohio State University Press).
Dino Franco Felluga is an Associate Professor of English at Purdue University. His first book, The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius was published by SUNY Press in 2005. It was followed by the 4-volume, million-word Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature and Critical Theory: The Key Concepts.
The book has been made available open access at the following link: https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198929208.pdf