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Landscapes of Eternal Return

Tennyson to Hardy

Roger Ebbatson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XII, 236 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-32837-9 (ISBN)

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This book is about the resonance and implications of the idea of 'eternal recurrence', as expounded notably by Nietzsche, in relation to a range of nineteenth-century literature. It opens up the issue of repetition and cyclical time as a key feature of both poetic and prose texts in the Victorian/Edwardian period. The emphasis is upon the resonance of landscape as a vehicle of meaning, and upon the philosophical and aesthetic implications of the doctrine of 'recurrence' for the authors whose work is examined here, ranging from Tennyson and Hallam to Swinburne and Hardy. The book offers radically new light on a range of central nineteenth-century texts.

Roger Ebbatson is currently Visiting Professor at Lancaster University, UK, having previously taught at the University of Sokoto, Nigeria, the University of Worcester, and Loughborough University. He is a Fellow of the English Association, and a Vice-President of the Tennyson Society. His publications include Lawrence and the Nature Tradition (1980), Hardy: The Margin of the Unexpressed (1994), An Imaginary England (2005), Heidegger's Bicycle (2006), and Landscape & Literature, 1830-1914 (2013).

Introduction.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Romantic Fragments: The Poetry of Arthur Hallam.- 3. Young Tennyson and the Orient.- 4. Morte'd'Arthur: The Landscape of Eternal Return.- 5. Friendship and Melancholia: In Memoriam LXXXV.- 6. Richard Jefferies: Seeking the Beyond.- 7. 'Time's Mindless Rote': Evolution and Recurrence in Hardy.- 8. Tess's Boots: Hardy and Van Gogh.- 9. The Isle of Slingers: Hardy and Portland Bill.- 10. 'Before the Mirror': Swinburne, Hardy, Kristeva.- Bibliography.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	XII, 236 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Arthur Hallam • British and Irish Literature • Fiction • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • Nietzsche • Nineteenth century • Nineteenth-Century Literature • Poetry and Poetics • Swinburne • Van Gogh
ISBN-10	3-319-32837-9 / 3319328379
ISBN-13	978-3-319-32837-9 / 9783319328379
Zustand	Neuware