Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot thinking loss |
Author: |
BrennanThomas J., 1960- |
Place of Publication: |
New York |
Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
Year of Publication: |
2010 |
Edition: |
1st ed. |
Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 206 p.) |
Series: |
Nineteenth-century major lives and letters |
Subject: |
English poetry - History and criticism. - 19th century - |
Subject: |
Loss (Psychology) in literature. - |
Subject: |
Psychic trauma in literature. - |
Subject: |
Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature. - |
Subject: |
Trust in literature. - |
Subject: |
POETRY - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. - |
Personal Subject: |
Wordsworth - William - Criticism and interpretation. - |
Personal Subject: |
Tennyson - Alfred Tennyson - Criticism and interpretation. - |
Personal Subject: |
Eliot - T. S. - Criticism and interpretation. - |
Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230117549 |
Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
Summary: |
"Trauma, Transcendence and Trust takes up the idea of trauma as one of the lenses through which the twenty first century interprets experience. One place to excavate the roots of this sensibility is in three poets of mourning whose work bridges the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Wordsworth's haunted wanderings, Tennyson's trance, and Eliot's negative epiphanies: these experiences receive fresh attention in Trauma, Transcendence and Trust. Can a new ethic of trust address the repetition of trauma? In the process, can it replace our fantasies of transcendence? These poets repeatedly pose such questions in the hope that someone will listen"-- |
ISBN: |
9780230117549electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0230117546electronic bk. |