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Landscape and literature 1830-1914 : nature, text, aura / Roger Ebbatson.
Van Pelt Library PR468.L35 E23 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ebbatson, Roger.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Nature in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 221 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- This study offers an exciting new perspective on a range of literary texts of the 19th and early 20th centuries, exploring their vital but problematic depiction of nature, it offers the reader seminal re-readings of a variety of texts, notably Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and Edward Thomas, by placing their work in an original and illuminating cultural context. Framed by reference to a range of philosophical ideas, notably the Frankfurt School concept of 'aura', but also the Heideggerian reading of the 'destitution' wrought by technology, and the phenomenological concept of 'immersion' in the natural environment, this book will be of interest to both the student of literature, ecology and philosophy. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Tennysonian
- 1 'The Sea-Fairies': The Sirens and the Administered Society 21
- 2 'Impassioned Song': Arthur Hallam and Lyric Poetry 29
- 3 Locksley Hall: Progress and Destitution 38
- 4 'The Northern Farmer': Language and Homeland 50
- 5 Charles Tennyson Turner: Lyricism and Modernity 62
- Part II Hardy, Jefferies, Ruskin
- 6 Far From the Madding Crowd: Swampy Decomposition and Female Individualism 83
- 7 'In Front of the Landscape': Spectral Ressentiment 92
- 8 'A Singer Asleep': Hardy's Envoi to Decadence 104
- 9 The Machine in the Wheatfield: Steam-Power in the Victorian Countryside 115
- 10 Prophetic Landscapes: Hardy and Jefferies 125
- 11 The Springs of Wandel: Ruskin, Proust, Benjamin 142
- Part III The South Country
- 12 Traversing the South Country, 1850-1914 157
- 13 The Spiritual Geography of Edward Thomas 170.
- ISBN:
- 9781137330437
- 1137330430
- OCLC:
- 827256528
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