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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... appear the odd man out among the 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 ...
... appear the odd man out among the 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 ...
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... appears to enter a state of religious transcendence, illuminated and elevated by God, his eyes (“azure orbits”) planets themselves. But there is a suggestion here that this transport might be less benign, and less Christian, than it ...
... appears to enter a state of religious transcendence, illuminated and elevated by God, his eyes (“azure orbits”) planets themselves. But there is a suggestion here that this transport might be less benign, and less Christian, than it ...
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... appear to be a state in which agency and power are ceded in a forced and silencing passivity, constituting a submission to being overwhelmed physically, psychically, and discursively. This seems to be the experience the Prince undergoes ...
... appear to be a state in which agency and power are ceded in a forced and silencing passivity, constituting a submission to being overwhelmed physically, psychically, and discursively. This seems to be the experience the Prince undergoes ...
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... appear to point. The speaker of Tennyson's first dramatic monologue, “St. Simeon Stylites,” the subject of chapter 2, points toward the development of rapture theology in the late 1820s and early 1830s, a context for the poem and the ...
... appear to point. The speaker of Tennyson's first dramatic monologue, “St. Simeon Stylites,” the subject of chapter 2, points toward the development of rapture theology in the late 1820s and early 1830s, a context for the poem and the ...
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... appears to unfit its possessors for civic action or responsibility, to supplant social efficacy with sensuous languor. I explore the wide implications of the self-conscious beauty of Tennysonian language not only for the genre of the ...
... appears to unfit its possessors for civic action or responsibility, to supplant social efficacy with sensuous languor. I explore the wide implications of the self-conscious beauty of Tennysonian language not only for the genre of 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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