John Morton

Tennyson Among the Novelists (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Until now, the study of literary allusion has focused on allusions made by poets to other poets. In Tennyson Among the Novelists, John Morton presents the first book-length account of the presence of a poet's work in works of prose fiction. As well as shedding new light on the poems of Tennyson and their reception history, Morton covers a wide variety of novelists including Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, and Andrew O'Hagan, offering a fresh look at their approach to writing. Morton shows how Tennyson's poetry, despite its frequent depreciation by critics, has survived as a vivifying presence in the novel from the Victorian period to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441176622
• Artikelnr.: 40615005

Autorenporträt

John Morton is Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. 'So word by word, and line by line, / The dead man touched me from the
past': Theories of Influence
2. 'This is what I call democratic art - the revelation of the poetry which
lies in common things.': Tennyson in the Victorian Novel.
3. 'The heat of life in the handful of dust': the Turn of the Century
4. 'I hate great men': Tennyson in the Modernist Novel
5. 'An infant crying in the night': D. H. Lawrence and Tennyson.
6. 'Here at the quiet limit of the world': the 1930s and 1940s. 7. 'Har
fleag har fleag har fleag onward': Popular fiction post-1950.
8. 'She has a lovely face:' Ladies of Shalott 1970-1990.
9. 'A Hundred Years After': Tennyson in the 1990s.
10. 'Sweet 'N Low': Tennyson today
Bibliography 
Index