Title Trauma, transcendence, and trust : Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot thinking loss / Thomas J. Brennan

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 206 pages) Series Nineteenth-century major lives and letters Nineteenth-century major lives and letters. Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Gazes of Trauma, Spots of Trust: Wordsworth's Memorials in The Prelude -- 2. "Wound" in the "Living Soul": Tennyson's In Memoriam -- 3. Castrated Referentiality: Eliot's The Waste Land Summary "Trauma, Transcendence and Trust takes up the idea of trauma as one of the lenses through which the twenty first century interprets experience. One place to excavate the roots of this sensibility is in three poets of mourning whose work bridges the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Wordsworth's haunted wanderings, Tennyson's trance, and Eliot's negative epiphanies: these experiences receive fresh attention in Trauma, Transcendence and Trust. Can a new ethic of trust address the repetition of trauma? In the process, can it replace our fantasies of transcendence? These poets repeatedly pose such questions in the hope that someone will listen"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 fast Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 fast Subject English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism Loss (Psychology) in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature. Trust in literature. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English poetry Loss (Psychology) in literature Psychic trauma in literature Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature Trust in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230117549 0230117546 9781349289424 1349289426

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