- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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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“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)
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-19
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Fragments of Romanticism: The Poetry of Arthur Hallam
Pages 21-48
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Knowing the Orient: The Young Tennyson
Pages 49-63
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Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur: The Landscape of Eternal Return
Pages 65-77
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Friendship and Melancholia: In Memoriam LXXXV
Pages 79-92
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Landscapes of Eternal Return
- Book Subtitle
- Tennyson to Hardy
- Authors
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- Roger Ebbatson
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-32838-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-32838-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-32837-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-81380-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 236
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