Overview
- It helps to fulfil a still-extant critical need as it presents a sustained and wide-ranging discussion of Victorian lyric, examining the authorial anxieties and aspirations such poetry reveals, rather than privileging dramatic or narrative modes
- It features a series of close readings that view the theme of recollection through the lens of form in both well-known and more obscure poems; these readings are then connected to Victorian conceptions of memory, loss, and nostalgia more generally conceived. In this way it builds on the influential notion of a nineteenth-century crisis of memory by investigating, more than any other study, the inevitable simultaneity of remembering and forgetting in Victorian verse. Finally, it expands the theme of memory to encompass technologies of reproduction and circulation, such as photographs, Claude glasses, and anthologies
- It ties its main arguments about memory to formal memorizability, reception history, and Victorian poets’ complex anticipations of (and resistances to) the ways in which they would be remembered and read. This provides a blueprint for future research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
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“This is an erudite, sensitive study of Victorian lyrics about memory, loss, and time. Alfano uncovers a fascinating tradition of poetry that explores the inextricability of remembering and forgetting, of personal history and cultural nostalgia.” (Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, Professor of English, Wesleyan University, USA)
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Book Title: The Lyric in Victorian Memory
Book Subtitle: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman
Authors: Veronica Alfano
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51307-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51306-5Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84615-6Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51307-2Published: 11 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 372
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Memory Studies