Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvIrmtraud Huber,University of Konstanz) Huber, Irmtraud (Professor of English Literature

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Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry's relation to time and argues that this relation is historically contingent as the concept of time changes, so too do the shaping forms and definitions of poetry. Victorian literature provides a rich testing field for its hypothesis, since the nineteenth century saw momentous changes in the ways people thought about and experienced time. This book demonstrates that these changes were an important factor for some of the long-term developments in Victorian poetry, like its loss of cultural prestige, the popularity of mixed genres like the poetic sequence, the dramatic monologue and the verse novel, and the demise of metrical poetry as the norm. Moreover, the historical perspective offered questions some widely held assumptions, not only about poetry, but also about time itself. Thus, the theoretical relevance of this study extends well beyond its Victorian context.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-28
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt456 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor296
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399511827
UtmärkelserWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2024 (UK)

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Irmtraud Huber is Professor for English Literature at the University of Konstanz. She has also held positions at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the Universität Bern. Before turning her research interest to the Victorians, she published two monographs on contemporary fiction, Present-tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction (2016) and Literature after Postmodernism (2014). For her work, she has received awards from the Deutscher Anglistenverband and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

AcknowledgementsIntroduction ‒ Time, History and the Lyric1. ‘Utterly vain is, alas! This attempt at the Absolute, – wholly!’ – Poetry’s Changing Relation to Timeless Truths2. Negotiating Time in Victorian Genre Innovations3. Idle Poetry and Poetic Idleness ‒ Poetry in the Age of the Gospel of Success4. Hearing Time in Metre ‒ Prosody between Abstraction, Mechanism and Embodiment5. Of Time and Poetry ‒ Towards a Theory of Poetic TemporalityWorks CitedIndex

This learned and lucid book is a valuable contribution to the literature on genre and Victorian poems... Huber offers elegant interpretations of Victorian poems, including the most frequently taught works and others chosen wisely. Huber’s interpretations are cogent, and so are her graceful dissents with other theorists. She situates her arguments about lyric poetry in the context of the transformations of the society to which the poetry responds—socialism, class struggles, urbanization, mechanization, commercializing of time, theories of evolution, secularization, erosion of certainties, the acceleration of time, and relativities everywhere.