The lyric in Victorian memory : poetic remembering and forgetting from Tennyson to Housman / Veronica Alfano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alfano, Veronica, 1983- author.

Contributor:

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Series:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--Themes, motives.

English poetry.

Nostalgia in literature.

English poetry--Themes, motives.

Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

xi, 372 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits ? such as brevity, stanzaic structure, and sonic repetition ? that appear in the lyrics examined. This book considers the interwoven nature of remembering and forgetting in the work of four Victorian poets. It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on the connections between gender and genre, and on the way in which Victorians represented and commemorated the past.

Contents:

Introduction

Tennyson's lyric betrayals : feminine re-formation in The Princess and In Memoriam

Remembering Christina Rossetti : dead women and the afterlife of lyric

The forgetting of Symons : photographic memory and formal reincarnation

Amnesia and nostalgia in Housman's A Shropshire Lad : "those blue remembered hills."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-357) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9783319513065

3319513060

OCLC:

964377582

Publisher Number:

99976674728