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Tennyson Among the Novelists

Av John Morton

Del i serien Continuum Reception Studies

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This is a study of allusions to Alfred Tennyson's poetry in works of fiction from the Victorian period to the present day. 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.
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John Morton is Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich, UK. He has published articles and chapters on Tennyson and is a contributor to the Guardian Books blog.

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John Morton's Tennyson Among the Novelists is a splendid piece of work: it is a highly informative and entertaining feat of sustained literary detection, finding the Laureate's influence, and his words, in a wide variety of unexpected places, but also an extraordinarily learned and judicious account of the relation between prose and poetry since Tennyson's time. The material Morton has unearthed is stimulating, and his quietly penetrating critical comments bring out its rich significance in a very impressive way. Tennyson in particular became a symbol of the Victorians to later generations, so his case is profoundly telling for the way modern writers have positioned themselves in relation to the past. This book is proof - if proof were needed - that allusion remains a crucial and immensely productive area of literary study.

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