The Victorian imagination : essays in aesthetic exploration / William E. Buckler
1980, First Edition. New York : New York University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432134
ISBN: 0814710336
Physical description; x, 382 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The Victorian imagination: a nonpolemical introduction -- Past and present as literary experience: an essay in the epistemological imagination -- The Tennysonian imagination -- Tennysonian madness: mighty collisions in the imagination -- Enlarging the "miniature epic": the panic subtext in Tennyson's Œnone -- Tennyson's The lotus-eaters: emblem of a new poetry -- In defense of Locksley Hall -- Tennyson's function of poetry at the present time: a parabolic reading of The princess -- In memoriam in aesthetic context -- Tennyson's Maud: new critical perspectives -- The poetry of Swinburne: a essay in critical reenforcement -- Marius the Epicurean: beyond Victorianism -- Déjà vu inverted: the imminent future in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean -- The dark space illumined: a reading of Hardy's "Poems of 1912-13" -- Thomas Hardy's "chronicle-piece" in "play-shape": an essay in literary conceptualization -- "The thing signified" by The Dynasts: a speculation -- Thomas Hardy's illusion of letters: narrative consciousness as imaginative style in The Dynasts, Tess, and Jude. Subjects; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892 Criticism and interpretation. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892 Criticism and interpretation Addresses, essays, lectures. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron Studies. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature 19th century History and criticism Addresses, essays, lectures. History 19th century criticism.
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