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Title
Landscapes of eternal return : Tennyson to Hardy / Roger Ebbatson.
Alternate Title
Landscape and literature 1830-1914.
ISBN
9783319328386 (electronic book)
3319328387 (electronic book)
9783319328379 (hardback)
3319328379 (hardback)
Published
Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 236 pages)
Call Number
PR468.T48 E334 2016e
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/008
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Note
"I have conceived this study as a kind of sequel to my earlier book, Landscape and Literature 1830-1914"--Prefatory note.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (at end of chapters and on pages 221-224) and index.
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Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed February 21, 2017).
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.
