Elegy for an Age

The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature

von John D. Rosenberg

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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This rich and elegant work describes how the unsettled cultural climate provided fertile soil for the flourishing of elegy. John Rosenberg shows how the phenomenon of elegy pervaded the writing of the period, tracing it through the voices of individuals from Carlyle, Tennyson, Darwin and Ruskin, to Swinburne, Pater, Dickens and Hopkins. Finally, he turns from particular elegists to a common experience that touched them all - the displacement of the older idea of the earthly city as a New Jerusalem by the rise of a new image of the Victorian city as an industrial Inferno, a wasteland of sprawling towns and of rivers so polluted they caught on fire.

• Reihe: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9781843311546
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2000
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Anthem Press