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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... poet's manifold uses of the dramatic monologue, a genre whose Victorian incarnation he essentially invented. A notoriously elusive genre to define, the dramatic monologue ultimately may be characterized less by its technical elements ...
... poet's manifold uses of the dramatic monologue, a genre whose Victorian incarnation he essentially invented. A notoriously elusive genre to define, the dramatic monologue ultimately may be characterized less by its technical elements ...
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... poet's oeuvre and his culture. These first four dramatic monologues were conceived in the poet's period of greatest shock after Hallam's death, as of course was In Memoriam, a text that is especially useful in establishing a preliminary ...
... poet's oeuvre and his culture. These first four dramatic monologues were conceived in the poet's period of greatest shock after Hallam's death, as of course was In Memoriam, a text that is especially useful in establishing a preliminary ...
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... poet's dramatic posthumous intercourse with Hallam. In the course, again, of “lingering” (“By night we lingered on ... poet up and whirls him into the highest heavens is a critical distinction, of course, given the potential homoerotic ...
... poet's dramatic posthumous intercourse with Hallam. In the course, again, of “lingering” (“By night we lingered on ... poet up and whirls him into the highest heavens is a critical distinction, of course, given the potential homoerotic ...
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... poet and the Victorian age. Criticism is only beginning to account for the complex ways Tennyson's classicism ... poet's at a remarkable number of contact points. An especially sharp intersection involved Arthur Hal- lam, who was ...
... poet and the Victorian age. Criticism is only beginning to account for the complex ways Tennyson's classicism ... poet's at a remarkable number of contact points. An especially sharp intersection involved Arthur Hal- lam, who was ...
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... poet's language, Mill claims, is never intended for or even aware of an audience; the poet has no designs on an auditor or eavesdropper. Eloquence or suasive speech, on the other hand, seeks not only to appeal to “other minds,” but also ...
... poet's language, Mill claims, is never intended for or even aware of an audience; the poet has no designs on an auditor or eavesdropper. Eloquence or suasive speech, on the other hand, seeks not only to appeal to “other minds,” but also ...
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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