Title Victorian afterlives : the shaping of influence in nineteenth-century literature / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Published Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 372 pages .) Contents Forms of survival -- Voices in the air -- Tennyson's sympathy -- Edward Fitzgerald : under the influence Summary "Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, in terms that ranged from personal immortality to the more dispersed and unpredictable after-effects of particular words and deeds. Some of these questions emerged in the intellectual and stylistic preoccupations of individual writers. Others contributed towards the cultural atmosphere these writers shared, in which shifting and overlapping ideas of 'influence' (from the seductive touch of the mesmerist to the contagious breath of the poor) became central to attempts to work out how far-reaching were the effects which people had on one another and themselves." "Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between different fields of enquiry (including literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science), and written in a lively and accessible style, this major new study redraws the map of nineteenth-century culture to show what the Victorians made of one another, and what they might help us make of ourselves."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-366) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 fast Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 fast Tennyson, Alfred, (1809-1892) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Fitzgerald, Edward, (1809-1883) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Influence (Psychology) Survival in literature. English literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Influence (Psychology) Intellectual life Survival in literature Literatur Beeinflussung Motiv Letterkunde. Engels. Invloed. Culturele invloeden. Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Influence littéraire, artistique, etc. Influence (psychologie) SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 Subject Great Britain Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 19e siècle. Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191719028 0191719021

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