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Landscapes of Eternal Return

Tennyson to Hardy

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Roger Ebbatson

    1. University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom

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  • Moves artfully and productively between 'high theory’ and traditional historically inflected close reading
  • Focuses on Tennyson and Hardy but also looks at work by Hallam and Swinburne
  • Examines this work through a wide range of theoretical lenses

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 1-19

  3. Fragments of Romanticism: The Poetry of Arthur Hallam

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 21-48

  4. Knowing the Orient: The Young Tennyson

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 49-63

  5. Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur: The Landscape of Eternal Return

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 65-77

  6. Friendship and Melancholia: In Memoriam LXXXV

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 79-92

  7. Repetitious Labour: Women in the Field

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 93-104

  8. Seeking the Beyond: Sacralising/Desacralising Nature in Richard Jefferies

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 105-118

  9. ‘Time’s Mindless Rote’: Nietzschean Evolution and Recurrence in Hardy’s Texts

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 119-148

  10. Tess’s Boots: Hardy and Van Gogh

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 149-165

  11. The Isle of Slingers: Hardy & Portland Bill

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 167-182

  12. ‘Before the Mirror’: Swinburne, Hardy, Kristeva

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 183-207

  13. Afterword

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 209-220

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 221-236
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About this book

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. 

Reviews

“This is an important book which will be essential reading for Tennyson and Hardy scholars but should also have wider international appeal. Few scholars are as qualified as Ebbatson to situate Victorian and Edwardian writers within the broader context of European thought. The author moves effortlessly between 'high theory' and traditional historically inflected close reading to produce an exciting and challenging read.” (Valerie Purton, Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom

    Roger Ebbatson

About the author

Roger Ebbatson is currently Visiting Professor at Lancaster University, UK, having previously taught at the University of Sokoto, Nigeria, the University of Worcester, and Loughborough University. He is a Fellow of the English Association, and a Vice-President of the Tennyson Society. His publications include Lawrence and the Nature Tradition (1980), Hardy: The Margin of the Unexpressed (1994), An Imaginary England (2005), Heidegger’s Bicycle (2006), and Landscape & Literature, 1830-1914 (2013).

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