书目名称 | Tennyson and Geology |
副标题 | Poetry and Poetics |
编辑 | Michelle Geric |
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概述 | The first single-author, book-length examination of Tennyson and geology.Reaches further than the current trend of historical contextualisation of literature and science to offer new ways of approachi |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
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描述 | .This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s .Principles of Geology. (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical contextualisation and the application of Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism – the book demonstrates not only the significance of geology for Tennyson’s poetry, but the vital import of Tennyson’s poetics in explicating the implications of geology for the nineteenth century and beyond. Gender ideologies in .The Princess. (1847) are read via High Miller’s geology, while the writings of Lyell and other contemporary geologist, comparative anatomists and language theorists are examined along-side .In Memoriam .(1851) and .Maud. (1855). The book argues that Tennyson’s experimentation with Lyell’s geology produced a remarkable ‘uniformitarian’ poetics that is best understood via Bakhtinian theory; a poetics that reveals the seminal role methodologies in geology played in the development of divisions between science and culture, and that also, quite profoundly, anticipates the crisis in language later associated with the linguistic |
出版日期 | Book 2017 |
关键词 | Tennyson; Geology; Nineteenth-century literature; Poetry; Literature and science |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66110-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-88178-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-66110-0Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 |
issn_series | 2634-6435 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |