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Routledge Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence

Name: Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence
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This scholarly study examines Alfred Tennyson's portrayals of erotic and creative impulses through the lens of lover-artist figures that populate his work. The analysis reads these characters as tropes representing the desire to transcend human limitation, personal fragmentation, and the boundaries of knowledge itself. Rather than treating Tennyson's characters as merely pursuing erotic fulfilment, utopian construction, or artistic achievement, the book argues that they engage in a fundamentally spiritual quest, seeking to divine desire and eternalize the satisfaction of their deepest longings. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, the study explores how Victorian writers like Tennyson channelled sexual desire into religious impulse, revealing the interconnected nature of creativity, spirituality, and longing in nineteenth-century literature. Part of the Nineteenth Century Series from Routledge, this volume offers literary scholars, students, and Tennyson enthusiasts a rigorous examination of transcendence and desire in Victorian poetry.

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Examines Tennyson's lover-artist figures as expressions of the desire for spiritual transcendence and escape from human limitation.

Explores how Tennyson's characters pursue erotic, utopian, and artistic goals that mask deeper spiritual quests for eternal fulfilment.

Applies psychoanalytic theory to demonstrate how Victorian poets like Tennyson sublimated sexual desire into religious and creative impulse.

Part of Routledge's Nineteenth Century Series, providing scholarly context for Tennyson's work within broader Victorian literary movements.

Addresses literary theory and critical approaches to understanding Tennyson's poetry and its engagement with transcendence and desire.

Suitable for academic readers, literature students, and scholars studying Victorian poetry, literary criticism, and nineteenth-century movements.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0754600696
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 March 2000
Listed Since: 14 December 2006

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