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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... seems wholly to absorb the orator, who is in a state of exaltation as he speaks, because of his speech, caught up in the “power and grace” of his own discursive performance. But the “rapt oration” also transports its auditors, who are ...
... seems wholly to absorb the orator, who is in a state of exaltation as he speaks, because of his speech, caught up in the “power and grace” of his own discursive performance. But the “rapt oration” also transports its auditors, who are ...
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... seems to be the experience the Prince undergoes in the course of his “weird seizures” (1.14, 81) throughout The Princess, often considered a reference to the epilepsy to which some of Tennyson's immediate family members were subject ...
... seems to be the experience the Prince undergoes in the course of his “weird seizures” (1.14, 81) throughout The Princess, often considered a reference to the epilepsy to which some of Tennyson's immediate family members were subject ...
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... seems im- portant to note that my focus on a particular kind of poem that a particular poet wrote is nevertheless unwavering. In reading a set of dramatic monologues that are far-ranging in their references to ancient and contemporary ...
... seems im- portant to note that my focus on a particular kind of poem that a particular poet wrote is nevertheless unwavering. In reading a set of dramatic monologues that are far-ranging in their references to ancient and contemporary ...
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... seem necessary for the purpose.” He adds that the “impression of gratuitousness is heightened by the fact that the speakers never accomplish anything by their utterance, and seem to know from the start that they will not.”15 Critics ...
... seem necessary for the purpose.” He adds that the “impression of gratuitousness is heightened by the fact that the speakers never accomplish anything by their utterance, and seem to know from the start that they will not.”15 Critics ...
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... seem to have been impaired by the failure of literary historians and taxonomists to achieve consensus in its definition.”27 In Kinds of Literature, Alastair Fowler argues, “The identification of genre is curiously retroactive,” and ...
... seem to have been impaired by the failure of literary historians and taxonomists to achieve consensus in its definition.”27 In Kinds of Literature, Alastair Fowler argues, “The identification of genre is curiously retroactive,” and ...
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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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