Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic MonologueOxford University Press, 29 jan 2008 - 408 pagina's 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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... Quintilian's definition of impersonation in his Institutio Oratoria, a standard text in schooling for both Romans and Victorians, especially in training for public speaking.5 This classical precedent is a crucial one if we are to ...
... Quintilian's definition of impersonation in his Institutio Oratoria, a standard text in schooling for both Romans and Victorians, especially in training for public speaking.5 This classical precedent is a crucial one if we are to ...
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... Quintilian on the making of an orator.”8 Quintilian regards prosopopoeia or impersonation as “the most difficult of tasks,” in part because of the variety of speakers and occasions it must command: “For the same speaker has on one ...
... Quintilian on the making of an orator.”8 Quintilian regards prosopopoeia or impersonation as “the most difficult of tasks,” in part because of the variety of speakers and occasions it must command: “For the same speaker has on one ...
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... Quintilian reviews a tradition of theories regarding the aims and practices of oratory, which invariably center on the arts of persuasion; he stresses in particular the frequency with which Cicero “defined the duty of an orator as ...
... Quintilian reviews a tradition of theories regarding the aims and practices of oratory, which invariably center on the arts of persuasion; he stresses in particular the frequency with which Cicero “defined the duty of an orator as ...
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... Quintilian's example of Priam's suasive resources merits dwelling upon. Homeric eloquence is a subject that fascinated Tennyson, so this example is particularly res- onant for my study, but here I would like to consider less the details ...
... Quintilian's example of Priam's suasive resources merits dwelling upon. Homeric eloquence is a subject that fascinated Tennyson, so this example is particularly res- onant for my study, but here I would like to consider less the details ...
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... Quintilian, which itself, according to Marsh H. McCall in his book on the subject, “offers the most complete and perceptive discussion of comparison in antiquity.” Quintilian distinguishes simile from metaphor in these terms: “On the ...
... Quintilian, which itself, according to Marsh H. McCall in his book on the subject, “offers the most complete and perceptive discussion of comparison in antiquity.” Quintilian distinguishes simile from metaphor in these terms: “On the ...
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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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