The Lyric in Victorian Memory
Subtitle: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 12, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9783319513065
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.
Notes: Source title: The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)