The Lyric in Victorian Memory

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The Lyric in Victorian Memory is written by Veronica Alfano and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319513079 (ISBN 10) and 9783319513072 (ISBN 13).

This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits – such as brevity, stanzaic structure, and sonic repetition – that appear in the lyrics examined. This book considers the interwoven nature of remembering and forgetting in the work of four Victorian poets. It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on the connections between gender and genre, and on the way in which Victorians represented and commemorated the past.