Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic MonologueOxford University Press, 29. 1. 2008 - Počet stran: 408 In the wake of the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, the subject of In Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson wrote a range of intricately connected poems, many of which feature pivotal scenes of rapture, or being carried away. This book explores Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation-theological, social, political, or personal-and as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics. The poet's fascination with transformation is figured formally in the genre he is credited with inventing, the dramatic monologue. Tennyson's Rapture investigates the poet's previously unrecognized intimacy with the theological movements in early Victorian Britain that are the acknowledged roots of contemporary Pentacostalism, with its belief in the oncoming Rapture, and its formative relation to his poetic innovation. Tennyson's work recurs persistently as well to classical instances of rapture, of mortals being borne away by immortals. Pearsall develops original readings of Tennyson's major classical poems through concentrated attention to his profound intellectual investments in advances in philological scholarship and archeological exploration, including pressing Victorian debates over whether Homer's raptured Troy was a verifiable site, or the province of the poet's imagination. Tennyson's attraction to processes of personal and social change is bound to his significant but generally overlooked Whig ideological commitments, which are illuminated by Hallam's political and philosophical writings, and a half-century of interaction with William Gladstone. Pearsall shows the comprehensive engagement of seemingly apolitical monologues with the rise of democracy over the course of Tennyson's long career. Offering a new approach to reading all Victorian dramatic monologues, this book argues against a critical tradition that sees speakers as unintentionally self-revealing and ignorant of the implications of their speech. Tennyson's Rapture probes the complex aims of these discursive performances, and shows how the ambitions of speakers for vital transformations in themselves and their circumstances are not only articulated in, but attained through, the medium of their monologues. |
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... classical monologues as I wrote them, saving me when she could from error and sustaining me more than she could know at an especially critical period of composition. My student research assistant Molly Hamer was instrumental in helping ...
... classical monologues as I wrote them, saving me when she could from error and sustaining me more than she could know at an especially critical period of composition. My student research assistant Molly Hamer was instrumental in helping ...
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... classical scholarship, sexological theory, and evangelical writings on the rapture (I follow Victorian theologians in not capitalizing the term). While Tennyson's poetry is at the center of my study, I examine closely the poet's ...
... classical scholarship, sexological theory, and evangelical writings on the rapture (I follow Victorian theologians in not capitalizing the term). While Tennyson's poetry is at the center of my study, I examine closely the poet's ...
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... classical company of the three other foundational dramatic monologues, but I hope to show that the ambition for rapture, variously conceived, motivates the speech and actions of each of these speakers. Tennyson called “Tithonus” and ...
... classical company of the three other foundational dramatic monologues, but I hope to show that the ambition for rapture, variously conceived, motivates the speech and actions of each of these speakers. Tennyson called “Tithonus” and ...
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... subterranean ambitions and implications of an interrelated set of Tennyson's classical dramatic monologues. In excavating this poem's complex representations of democratic social change, I draw from sources as diverse Rapt Oration 11.
... subterranean ambitions and implications of an interrelated set of Tennyson's classical dramatic monologues. In excavating this poem's complex representations of democratic social change, I draw from sources as diverse Rapt Oration 11.
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... classical world he was, as so often writers do, simply writing about what he knew, but we have not sufficiently questioned the profound lyric and generic consequences of his allegiances to classical material.8 In Culture and Anarchy ...
... classical world he was, as so often writers do, simply writing about what he knew, but we have not sufficiently questioned the profound lyric and generic consequences of his allegiances to classical material.8 In Culture and Anarchy ...
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UNREAL CITY VICTORIANS IN TROY | 121 |
THE RAPTURE OF THE SONGBUILT CITY | 205 |
Tennysons Apotheosis | 339 |
Notes | 351 |
Index | 385 |
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