| The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Alfano, Veronica (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319846159 ISBN-13: 9783319846156 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 809.034 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Physical Information: 372 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |