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Tennyson's Rapture - Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue (Hardcover, New)
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Tennyson's Rapture - Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue (Hardcover, New)
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In the wake of the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, the
subject of In Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson wrote a range of
intricately connected poems, many of which feature pivotal scenes
of rapture, or being carried away. 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. The poet's
fascination with transformation is figured formally in the genre he
is credited with inventing, the dramatic monologue. Tennyson's
Rapture investigates the poet's previously unrecognized intimacy
with the theological movements in early Victorian Britain that are
the acknowledged roots of contemporary Pentacostalism, with its
belief in the oncoming Rapture, and its formative relation to his
poetic innovation. Tennyson's work recurs persistently as well to
classical instances of rapture, of mortals being borne away by
immortals. Pearsall develops original readings of Tennyson's major
classical poems through concentrated attention to his profound
intellectual investments in advances in philological scholarship
and archeological exploration, including pressing Victorian debates
over whether Homer's raptured Troy was a verifiable site, or the
province of the poet's imagination. Tennyson's attraction to
processes of personal and social change is bound to his significant
but generally overlooked Whig ideological commitments, which are
illuminated by Hallam's political and philosophical writings, and a
half-century of interaction with William Gladstone. Pearsall shows
the comprehensive engagement of seemingly apolitical monologues
with the rise of democracy over the course of Tennyson's long
career. Offering a new approach to reading all Victorian dramatic
monologues, this book argues against a critical tradition that sees
speakers as unintentionally self-revealing and ignorant of the
implications of their speech. Tennyson's Rapture probes the complex
aims of these discursive performances, and shows how the ambitions
of speakers for vital transformations in themselves and their
circumstances are not only articulated in, but attained through,
the medium of their monologues.
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