Victorian Afterlives
The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 February 2004
- ISBN 9780199269310
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 215x138x19 mm
- Weight 437 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 line drawings 0
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Short description:
This major study examines a Victorian obsession with 'influence', the often unpredictable after-effects of words and actions, in fields as diverse as mesmerism and theology, literary theory, and sanitation reform. For writers such as Tennyson, FitzGerald, and Dickens, the idea is both a theoretical and a practical problem. Survival is not only what their writing critically examines, but also what it sets out to achieve.
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Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth-century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Some of these questions emerged in the intellectual and stylistic preoccupations of individual writers, such as Dickens, Tennyson, and FitzGerald. Others contributed towards the cultural atmosphere they shared, in which shifty and overlapping ideas of 'influence' (from the seductive touch of the mesmerist to the contagious breath of the poor) became central to attempts to work out how far-reaching were the effects which people had on one another and themselves.
Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between different fields of enquiry (including literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science), and written in a lively and accessible style, this major new study redraws the map of nineteenth-century culture to show what the Victorians made of one another, and what they might still help us make of ourselves.
Review from hardback edition
... neatly phrased, incisive commentary is a precious feature of this book: its strength lies in such observations, in the author's highly-trained discrimination as a close reader of words.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
Introduction
Forms of Survival
Voices in the Air
Tennyson's Sympathy
Edward FitzGerald: Under the Influence
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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