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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... immortal, like that of Ganymede by Zeus or Tithonus by Aurora. These desirable young men are rendered sexual prey or plunder, reminding us that the definition of the Latin root raptus is “to seize” and that the experience of rapture can ...
... immortal, like that of Ganymede by Zeus or Tithonus by Aurora. These desirable young men are rendered sexual prey or plunder, reminding us that the definition of the Latin root raptus is “to seize” and that the experience of rapture can ...
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... immortality instead of eternal beauty; Tiresias mouths unheeded prophecies), and both must now fashion words that will attain release from such spectacularly failed selves. Tithonus had been a prince of Troy before his rapture by a ...
... immortality instead of eternal beauty; Tiresias mouths unheeded prophecies), and both must now fashion words that will attain release from such spectacularly failed selves. Tithonus had been a prince of Troy before his rapture by a ...
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... immortality, Tiresias with his void prophetic voice: none of these speakers can find an equivalent for himself or the state in which he finds himself at the start of his monologue. But at the moment each begins to speak, he enters ...
... immortality, Tiresias with his void prophetic voice: none of these speakers can find an equivalent for himself or the state in which he finds himself at the start of his monologue. But at the moment each begins to speak, he enters ...
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... immortality,” is not the unintentional misstatement of someone who really sought eternal youth, but a deliberate, intentional request, albeit one with a range of not entirely an- ticipated results. A dramatic monologue can neither ...
... immortality,” is not the unintentional misstatement of someone who really sought eternal youth, but a deliberate, intentional request, albeit one with a range of not entirely an- ticipated results. A dramatic monologue can neither ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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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