Elegy for an age : the presence of the past in Victorian literature /

A magisterial study of the Victorian longing for the past in the face of a turbulent present.

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Tác giả chính: Rosenberg, John D.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: London : Anthem Press 2005.
Loạt:Anthem nineteenth century studies.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1gsmzqj
Mục lục:
  • The age of elegy
  • Carlyle : history and the human voice
  • Stopping for death : Tennyson's In memoriam
  • Tennyson and the passing of Arthur
  • Ruskin's benediction : a reading of Fors clavigera
  • Water into wine : the miracle of Ruskin's Praeterita
  • Mr. Darwin collects himself
  • The Oxford elegists : Newman, Arnold, Hopkins
  • Swinburne and the ravages of time
  • Walter Pater and the art of evanescence
  • Varieties of infernal experience : the fall of the city in Victorian literature.