Elegy for an Age : The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature Paperback / softback
by John D. Rosenberg
Part of the Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series series
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This rich and elegant work describes how the unsettled cultural climate provided fertile soil for the flourishing of elegy.
John Rosenberg shows how the phenomenon of elegy pervaded the writing of the period, tracing it through the voices of individuals from Carlyle, Tennyson, Darwin and Ruskin, to Swinburne, Pater, Dickens and Hopkins.
Finally, he turns from particular elegists to a common experience that touched them all - the displacement of the older idea of the earthly city as a New Jerusalem by the rise of a new image of the Victorian city as an industrial Inferno, a wasteland of sprawling towns and of rivers so polluted they caught on fire.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, 8+ colour and halftone illustrations
- Publisher:Anthem Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2005
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- ISBN:9781843311546
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, 8+ colour and halftone illustrations
- Publisher:Anthem Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9781843311546
