Title Tennyson's rapture : transformation in the Victorian dramatic monologue / Cornelia Pearsall

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 397 pages) : illustrations Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rapt Oration -- PART I: THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE -- 1 The Poetics and Politics of the Dramatic Monologue -- 2 Victorian Rapture -- PART II: UNREAL CITY: VICTORIANS IN TROY -- 3 Locating Troy -- 4 Ulysses and the Rapture of Troy -- PART III: THE RAPTURE OF THE SONG-BUILT CITY -- 5 Tithonus and the Performance of Masculine Beauty -- 6 Tithonus, Tiresias, and the Political Composition of the Song�built City -- Conclusion: Tennyson�s Apotheosis -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E Fg -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z Summary Exploring Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation and as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics, this volume offers a new approach to reading Victorian dramatic monologues Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-383) and index Notes Print version record Subject Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 fast Subject Dramatic monologues -- History and criticism Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Dramatic monologues Politics and literature Great Britain Genre/Form Monologue Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007000225 ISBN 9780198034285 0198034288 9781435630468 1435630467 9780199871124 0199871124

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