Victorian afterlives : the shaping of influence in nineteenth-century literature
Douglas-Fairhurst, RobertAuthor
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert.Author
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2002.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883
English literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Influence (Psychology)
Survival in literature
English Literature
English
Languages & Literatures