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- Title
Tennyson's Maud (1855) and the "unmeaning of names": Geology, Language Theory, and Dialogics.
- Authors
GERIC, MICHELLE
- Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem “Maud” by Baron Alfred Tennyson. It explores the influence of geological science on the poem's linguistic structure. The article discusses the geologist Charles Lyell and the philosopher of science William Whewell as players in Tennyson's thinking, the dialogic approach to the poem and Adamic theory. The author goes on to discuss the poem as cultural and linguistic evidence of uniformitarian methodology.
- Subjects
TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; MAUD (Poem : Tennyson); GEOLOGY in literature; LYELL, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875; WHEWELL, William, 1794-1866; DIALOGISM (Literary analysis); GEOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2013, Vol 51, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2013.0002