Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-1182-7 (ISBN)
Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry’s relation to time and argues that this relation is historically contingent – as the concept of time changes, so too do the shaping forms and definitions of poetry. Victorian literature provides a rich testing field for its hypothesis, since the nineteenth century saw momentous changes in the ways people thought about and experienced time. This book demonstrates that these changes were an important factor for some of the long-term developments in Victorian poetry, like its loss of cultural prestige, the popularity of mixed genres like the poetic sequence, the dramatic monologue and the verse novel, and the demise of metrical poetry as the norm. Moreover, the historical perspective offered questions some widely held assumptions, not only about poetry, but also about time itself. Thus, the theoretical relevance of this study extends well beyond its Victorian context.
Irmtraud Huber is Professor for English Literature at the University of Konstanz. She has also held positions at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the Universität Bern. Before turning her research interest to the Victorians, she published two monographs on contemporary fiction, Present-tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction (2016) and Literature after Postmodernism (2014). For her work, she has received awards from the Deutscher Anglistenverband and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Acknowledgements
Introduction — Time, History and the Lyric
1. ‘Utterly vain is, alas! This attempt at the Absolute, – wholly!’ – Poetry’s Changing Relation to Timeless Truths
2. Negotiating Time in Victorian Genre Innovations
3. Idle Poetry and Poetic Idleness — Poetry in the Age of the Gospel of Success
4. Hearing Time in Metre — Prosody between Abstraction, Mechanism and Embodiment
5. Of Time and Poetry — Towards a Theory of Poetic Temporality
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.02.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-1182-3 / 1399511823 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-1182-7 / 9781399511827 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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