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Informationen zum Autor Anna Barton studied English at the Universities of Warwick and Glasgow and has taught at Keele University and the University of Sheffield, where she is currently a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature. Her first monograph, Tennyson's Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson was published by Ashgate in 2008. Klappentext 'Sure-handed and generously conceived to address a contemporary student's difficulties with In Memoriam and turn them into opportunities. Users of this guide will especially thank Barton for the model essays she has crafted on four strikingly different threads that traverse the poem: language, touch, economics, and ritual cycle.'Professor Herbert Tucker, University of VirginiaAUTHOR-APPROVEDReading Guides to Long PoemsSeries Editors: Isobel Armstrong & Sally BushellThe series enables readers to re-engage with the long poem as a vital form. Volumes provide generous extracts, or in some cases complete poems, from significant works combined with a reading guide and teaching tips from enthusiastic lecturers who have taught the poem.Tennyson's In Memoriam: A Reading GuideAnna BartonIntroduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poemIn Memoriam is one of the most famous and influential poems of the nineteenth century. Composed over nearly three decades and spanning over one hundred sections, it is also one of the longest elegies in the English language. It is at once a deeply personal description of grief and a wide-ranging discussion of its age. This guide takes readers through Tennyson's elegy, providing:* The full text of the poem* Information about its cultural, historical and literary contexts* Four different reading strategies for approaching the text* Suggested seminar activities, assessments and module outlines for teachers and lecturersAnna Barton is currently a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. Her monograph, Tennyson's Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson, was published by Ashgate in 2008. Zusammenfassung Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers! students and teachers of the poem. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents; Acknowledgements; Editions; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Mapping and Making; Part I: Monuments and Fragments; Part II: The In Memoriam Stanza; Part III: Remembering the Elegy; Chapter 2: The Poem; Part I: Outline; Part II: Poem; Chapter 3: The Guide; Theme I: Lost for Words; Theme II: Losing Touch; Theme III: Profit and Loss; Theme IV: Cycle and Ritual; Chapter 4: Contexts and Reception; Part I: Compositional Contexts; Part II: Scientific Contexts; Part III: Reviews and Anthologies; Part IV: Modernist Reactions; Chapter 5: Teaching the Text; Part I: Reading the Text ; Part II: Initial Responses; Part III: Teaching In Memoriam as a Victorian Text; Part IV: Thinking about Form; Part V: Module Outline ; Annotated Bibliography; Works Cited...
