Tennyson And Geology: Poetry And Poetics (palgrave Studies In Literature, Science And Medicine)
by Michelle Geric /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems
along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles
Lyell’s
This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems
along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles
Lyell’sPrinciples of Geology
Principles of Geology (1830-3).
Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the
poetic and geological texts, historical contextualisation and the
application of Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism – the
book demonstrates not only the significance of geology for
Tennyson’s poetry, but the vital import of Tennyson’s poetics in
explicating the implications of geology for the nineteenth
century and beyond. Gender ideologies in
(1830-3).
Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the
poetic and geological texts, historical contextualisation and the
application of Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism – the
book demonstrates not only the significance of geology for
Tennyson’s poetry, but the vital import of Tennyson’s poetics in
explicating the implications of geology for the nineteenth
century and beyond. Gender ideologies inThe
Princess
The
Princess (1847) are read via High Miller’s geology,
while the writings of Lyell and other contemporary geologist,
comparative anatomists and language theorists are examined
along-side
(1847) are read via High Miller’s geology,
while the writings of Lyell and other contemporary geologist,
comparative anatomists and language theorists are examined
along-sideIn Memoriam
In Memoriam(1851) and
(1851) andMaud
Maud
(1855). The book argues that Tennyson’s experimentation with
Lyell’s geology produced a remarkable ‘uniformitarian’ poetics
that is best understood via Bakhtinian theory; a poetics that
reveals the seminal role methodologies in geology played in the
development of divisions between science and culture, and
that also, quite profoundly, anticipates the crisis in language
later associated with the linguistic turn of the twentieth
century.
(1855). The book argues that Tennyson’s experimentation with
Lyell’s geology produced a remarkable ‘uniformitarian’ poetics
that is best understood via Bakhtinian theory; a poetics that
reveals the seminal role methodologies in geology played in the
development of divisions between science and culture, and
that also, quite profoundly, anticipates the crisis in language
later associated with the linguistic turn of the twentieth
century.
