Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-century Literature

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Oxford University Press, 2002 - 372 Seiten
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. 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 inquiry (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.

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Forms of Survival
11
Persons and poems
18
Influence and anxiety
28
Multiverses
54
a distant ringing hum
79
Voices in the Air
85
one vase library
96
the moral atmosphere
117
the return of the mind upon itself
199
the growth of song
232
a vital Sympathy
259
Edward FitzGerald Under the Influence
270
the constant appeal of time
278
a certain consciousness
301
Together
319
Afterword
342

snatches of old tunes
145
hope in dust
169
Tennysons Sympathy
182

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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is professor of English literature and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His books include Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist and The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland.

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