The first single-author, book-length examination of Tennyson and geology

Reaches further than the current trend of historical contextualisation of literature and science to offer new ways of approaching the study incorporating literary critical theory

Addresses multi-disciplinary subject matter and in its critical approach

Autorentext
Michelle Geric is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK.

Klappentext
The first single-author, book-length examination of Tennyson and geology Reaches further than the current trend of historical contextualisation of literature and science to offer new ways of approaching the study incorporating literary critical theory Addresses multi-disciplinary subject matter and in its critical approach

Zusammenfassung

The first single-author, book-length examination of Tennyson and geology

Reaches further than the current trend of historical contextualisation of literature and science to offer new ways of approaching the study incorporating literary critical theory

Addresses multi-disciplinary subject matter and in its critical approach

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Between a Rock and a Hard Place.- 2. Ida's Footprint in the San: The Princess , Geology and the Extinction of Feminism.- 3. "Uniformitarian Arguments are Negative only": Lyell and Whewell.- 4. In Memoriam 's Uniformitarian Poetics.- 5. Reading Maud 's Remains: Geological Processes, and Palaeontological Reconstructions.- 6. Maud and the Unmeaning of Names: Geology, Language Theory and Dialogism.- Afterword: What Remains.