Overview

This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914. It is exploratory and original in approach, stressing the philosophical and cultural implications in a range of texts from Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and Thomas.

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Author:   R. Ebbatson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.943kg
ISBN:  

9781137330437

ISBN 10:   1137330430
Pages:   221
Publication Date:   28 May 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Shifting Landscape PART I: TENNYSONIAN 1. 'The Sea-Fairies': The Sirens and the Administered Society 2. 'Impassioned Song': Arthur Hallam and Lyric Poetry 3. Locksley Hall: Progress and Destitution 4. 'The Northern Farmer': Language and Homeland 5. Charles Tennyson Turner: Lyricism and Modernity PART II: HARDY, JEFFERIES, RUSKIN 6. Far From the Madding Crowd: Swampy Decomposition and Female Individualism 7. 'In Front of the Landscape': Spectral Ressentiment 8. 'A Singer Asleep': Hardy's Envoi to Decadence 9. The Machine in the Wheatfield 10. Prophetic Landscapes: Hardy and Jefferies 11. The Springs of Wandel: Ruskin, Proust, Benjamin PART III: THE SOUTH COUNTRY 12. Traversing the South Country, 1850-1914 13. The Spiritual Geography of Edward Thomas Bibliography

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Roger Ebbatson is currently Visiting Professor at Lancaster University, UK, having previously held appointments at the University of Sokoto, Nigeria, the University of Worcester, and Loughborough University. His publications include Lawrence & the Nature Tradition, Hardy: Margin of the Unexpressed, An Imaginary England, and Heidegger's Bicycle. He is a Fellow of the English Association, and member of the editorial boards of the Tennyson Society and the Hardy Society, and of the executive council of the Jefferies Society.

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