Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits – such as brevity, stanzaic structure, and sonic repetition – that appear in the lyrics examined.
Veronica Alfano is Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University, Australia. She is the co-editor (with Andrew Stauffer) of Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- 2.Tennyson’s Lyric Betrayals: Feminine Re-Formation in The Princess and InMemoriam.- 3. Remembering Christina Rossetti: Dead Women and the Afterlife of Lyric.- 4. The Forgetting of Symons: Photographic Memory and Formal Reincarnation.- 5. Amnesia and Nostalgia in Housman’s A Shropshire Lad: “What are those blue remembered hills?”.- Coda.- Bibliography.-