The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry - Paperbackby Olivia Loksing Moy (Author) A lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from 1790s novels and tales exploded onto the English literary scene in 'low brow' titles of Gothic romance. Surprisingly, however, they also re emerged as features of major Victorian poems from the 1830s to 1870s. Such signature tropes