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Trauma, transcendence, and trust : Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot thinking loss
- Title
- Trauma, transcendence, and trust : Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot thinking loss / Thomas J. Brennan.
- Author
- Brennan, Thomas J., 1960-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 206 p.; 22 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
- Uniform Title
- Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
- Subject
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 > Criticism and interpretation
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 > Criticism and interpretation
- Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 > Criticism and interpretation
- English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Psychic trauma in literature
- Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature
- Trust in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-276
- ISBN
- 9780230104969 (hbk.)
- 0230104967 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2010014007
- OCLC
- YBP 2010014007
- Author
- Brennan, Thomas J., 1960-
- Title
- Trauma, transcendence, and trust : Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot thinking loss / Thomas J. Brennan.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Nineteenth-century major lives and lettersNineteenth-century major lives and letters.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-276