Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue

Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue
ISBN-10
0195150546
ISBN-13
9780195150544
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
397
Language
English
Published
2008-01-29
Publisher
OUP USA
Authors
Cornelia D. J. Pearsall, Cornelia Pearsall

Description

This book explores Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation--theological, social, political, or personal--and as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics. Offering a new approach to reading Victorian dramatic monologues, Pearsall probes the complex aims of these performances, showing how speakers' ambitions are both articulated in, and attained through, their consequential speech.

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