Victorian afterlives
Subtitle: the shaping of influence in nineteenth-century literature
By: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.; FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Influence (Psychology); Survival in literature.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-366) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. FORMS OF SURVIVAL 9; title: Keats's 'posthumous life' 9; title: Persons and poems8; title: Influence and anxiety 28; title: Multiverses 54; title: ' a distant ringing hum ' 79; title: 2. VOICES IN THE AIR 85; title: a distinct speck' 85; title: ' one vast library' 96; title: ' the moral atmosphere' 117; title: ' snatches of old tunes' 45; title: ' hope in dust' 169; title: 3. TENNYSON'S SYMPATHY 182; title: 'the passion of the past' 182; title: 'the return of the mind upon itself 199; title: 'the growth of song' 232; title: 'a vital Sympathy' 259; title: 4. EDWARD FITZGERALD: UNDER; title: THE INFLUENCE 270; title: Alone 270; title: 'the constant appeal of time' 278; title: 'a certain consciousness' 301; title: Together 319; title: AFTERWORD 342.