Landscapes of Eternal Return Tennyson to Hardy
This book is about the resonance and implications of the idea of ‘eternal recurrence’, as expounded notably by Nietzsche, in relation to a range of nineteenth-century literature. It opens up the issue of repetition and cyclical time as a key feature of bo
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Tennyson to Hardy
Roger Ebbatson
Landscapes of Eternal Return
Roger Ebbatson
Landscapes of Eternal Return Tennyson to Hardy
Roger Ebbatson University of Lancaster Lancaster, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-32837-9 ISBN 978-3-319-32838-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32838-6
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For John Schad And in fond memory of my English teacher, Henry Treece
PREFATORY NOTE
I have conceived this study as a kind of sequel to my earlier book, Landscape and Literature 1830–1914, dealing as it does with a number of the same authors but from the viewpoint of the concept of ‘eternal return’. The argument centres upon an examination of the ways in which textual and philosophical expression of return and repetition serves to undermine, challenge or recalibrate the guiding nineteenth-century doctrines of temporal and evolutionary linear progression. Once again I have sought to analyse issues around the literary representation of landscape and the textual embodiment of selfhood deploying some of the methodologies and ideas suggested by thinkers of the Frankfurt School and other twentieth-century theorists, and my hope is that Landscapes of Eternal Return might contribute something to our reading and understanding of the writers who are the focus of study. I am particularly indebted to the members of a number of literary societies to which I have belonged for many years, and particularly to the following: The Tennyson Society: Roger Evans, Valerie Purton and Marion Shaw. The Richard Jefferies Society: Barry Sloan and Rebecca Welshman. The Thomas Hardy Society: Indy Clark, Jacqueline Dillion, Trish Fer
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