Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic MonologueOxford University Press, 29 ian. 2008 - 408 pagini 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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... I have finished it as my daughter Adeline is beginning to write. I thank them both for teaching me daily the value and the beauty of every word. CONTENTS Introduction: Rapt Oration 3 PART I THE PERFORMANCE OF viii Acknowledgments.
... I have finished it as my daughter Adeline is beginning to write. I thank them both for teaching me daily the value and the beauty of every word. CONTENTS Introduction: Rapt Oration 3 PART I THE PERFORMANCE OF viii Acknowledgments.
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... Beauty 213 6 Tithonus, Tiresias, and the Political Composition of the Song-built City 272 Conclusion: Tennyson's Apotheosis 339 Notes 351 Index 385 This page intentionally left blank TENNYSON'S RAPTURE This page intentionally Contents.
... Beauty 213 6 Tithonus, Tiresias, and the Political Composition of the Song-built City 272 Conclusion: Tennyson's Apotheosis 339 Notes 351 Index 385 This page intentionally left blank TENNYSON'S RAPTURE This page intentionally Contents.
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... beauty. This ge- nealogy is central, I argue in chapter 5, to the aesthetics of Tennysonian lyric, so often charged with being “feminine,” a quality associated with being beautiful but ineffectual. Male beauty appears to unfit its ...
... beauty. This ge- nealogy is central, I argue in chapter 5, to the aesthetics of Tennysonian lyric, so often charged with being “feminine,” a quality associated with being beautiful but ineffectual. Male beauty appears to unfit its ...
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... beauty of his person.”36 A dramatic monologist seeks to carry away his or her auditor by rational argument, but draws on appeals to pathos and ethos as much as to logos. The suasive performance is enhanced by the depth of knowledge and ...
... beauty of his person.”36 A dramatic monologist seeks to carry away his or her auditor by rational argument, but draws on appeals to pathos and ethos as much as to logos. The suasive performance is enhanced by the depth of knowledge and ...
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... beauty of his person.” A speaker such as Ulysses derives much of his rhetorical force from the fact that his auditors, and Tennyson's readers, know at least the broad outlines of his story, and perhaps far more than that. All dramatic ...
... beauty of his person.” A speaker such as Ulysses derives much of his rhetorical force from the fact that his auditors, and Tennyson's readers, know at least the broad outlines of his story, and perhaps far more than that. All dramatic ...
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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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