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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... speaker, but also the audience: A willing ear We lent him. Who, but hung to hear The rapt oration flowing free From point to point, with power and grace And music in the bounds of law. (87.30–34) The “rapt oration” Tennyson recalls ...
... speaker, but also the audience: A willing ear We lent him. Who, but hung to hear The rapt oration flowing free From point to point, with power and grace And music in the bounds of law. (87.30–34) The “rapt oration” Tennyson recalls ...
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... speaker is witnessed by auditors who are simultaneously participants, enraptured themselves. The auditor (or reader, as when Tennyson reads Hallam's letters) is at once immobilized (“Sat rapt”) and yet so caught up rhetorically as to ...
... speaker is witnessed by auditors who are simultaneously participants, enraptured themselves. The auditor (or reader, as when Tennyson reads Hallam's letters) is at once immobilized (“Sat rapt”) and yet so caught up rhetorically as to ...
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... speakers attempt through complex discursive machinations to alter circumstances by altering—even enrapturing—persons, to effect social and political transformations by inciting personal ones. The speaker of a dramatic monologue seeks to ...
... speakers attempt through complex discursive machinations to alter circumstances by altering—even enrapturing—persons, to effect social and political transformations by inciting personal ones. The speaker of a dramatic monologue seeks to ...
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... speakers 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 ...
... speakers 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 ...
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... speakers attempt to mimic the potency of songs that can compel civic organization. Both speakers recall in their monologues ... speaker in Tennyson's dramatic monologue “Lucretius,” for example, associates his own riven identity with the ...
... speakers attempt to mimic the potency of songs that can compel civic organization. Both speakers recall in their monologues ... speaker in Tennyson's dramatic monologue “Lucretius,” for example, associates his own riven identity with 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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