TY - BOOK
T1 - The lyric in Victorian memory
T2 - poetic remembering and forgetting from Tennyson to Housman
AU - Alfano, Veronica
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits – such as brevity, stanzaic structure, and sonic repetition – that appear in the lyrics examined. This book considers the interwoven nature of remembering and forgetting in the work of four Victorian poets. It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on the connections between gender and genre, and on the way in which Victorians represented and commemorated the past.
AB - This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits – such as brevity, stanzaic structure, and sonic repetition – that appear in the lyrics examined. This book considers the interwoven nature of remembering and forgetting in the work of four Victorian poets. It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on the connections between gender and genre, and on the way in which Victorians represented and commemorated the past.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-51307-2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-51307-2
M3 - Book
SN - 9783319513065
SN - 9783319846156
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Series
BT - The lyric in Victorian memory
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham, Switzerland
ER -