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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Anthem Press
2005.
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| Series: | Anthem nineteenth century studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1gsmzqj |
Table of Contents:
- 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.