Victorian afterlives : the shaping of influence in nineteenth-century literature

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert, Author.

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Influence (Psychology).

Survival in literature.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Great Britain.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Criticism and interpretation.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson.

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883--Criticism and interpretation.

FitzGerald, Edward.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 372 p.) : ill.

Other Title:

Victorian afterlives

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Victorian Afterlives examines a Victorian obsession with 'influence', the often unpredictable after-effects of words and actions, in fields as diverse as mesmerism and theology literary theory and sanitation reform.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. FORMS OF SURVIVAL 9

Keats's 'posthumous life' 9

Persons and poems8

Influence and anxiety 28

Multiverses 54

' a distant ringing hum ' 79

2. VOICES IN THE AIR 85

a distinct speck' 85

' one vast library' 96

' the moral atmosphere' 117

' snatches of old tunes' 45

' hope in dust' 169

3. TENNYSON'S SYMPATHY 182

'the passion of the past' 182

'the return of the mind upon itself 199

'the growth of song' 232

'a vital Sympathy' 259

4. EDWARD FITZGERALD: UNDER

THE INFLUENCE 270

Alone 270

'the constant appeal of time' 278

'a certain consciousness' 301

Together 319

AFTERWORD 342.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780191719028 (ebook) :

0191719021 (ebook) :