Herbert F Tucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 295482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herbert F Tucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herbert F |
| FAMILY NAME | Tucker |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKER H F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Northern Epic
With striking consistency Morris’s 1877 epic Sigurd meets the principal criteria of its genre. The poem makes its story the vehicle for conveying culturally definitive lore and values, and imbues its heroic actors with the aim of earning a place in that story. The first paginal opening of the 1898 Kelmscott edition embodies this consistency, in imagery and typography that constitute a bibliographical and prosodic rite of passage inducting the rea…
Formalism
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After Magic
What charm is we, by definition, can’t quite say: it notoriously eludes the language that would fix it analytically into semantic place. But its ineffability or discursive resistance occupies a theoretically complex and historically informative relation to the antique or outlandish quality – I call it irreference – of the language of magic charms: the spells whereby a sorcerer uses words not to mean something but to do something. This conjunction…
Unsettled Scores
The Mindfulness of Poems
This deft monograph studies with care the careful study that major Victorian poets made of the thinking, feeling mind, in relation to both the brain it increasingly seemed made from and the soul it increasingly seemed to supplant. Tate convenes texts of three kinds from the mid-nineteenth century: writings on psychology, also known as the philosophy or science of mind (Matthew Allen, Perceval Lord, especially G.H. Lewes), poetry reviews and, what…
The Victorian Problem with Joy
Whatever happened to joy, once the Romantic poets had bequeathed it to the Victorians as a cultural resource, and before it reappeared on the edge of Modernism, inverted but proud, as the exotic an
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…
Afterword
Journal Article Afterword Get access Herbert F. Tucker Herbert F. Tucker 1University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2009, Pages 255–260, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550209000824 Published: 01 January 2009
Epic
1. The Very Idea: Epic in the Head 2. On Calliope's Jalopy: Epic Rebuilt 1790-1800 3. Under Correction: Epic Conscripted 1800-1805 4. In Expiation: Epic Atonement 1805-1815 5. in Style: Epic Plush 1815-1820 6. To the Ending Doom: Epic Apocalypse 1820-1830 7. In Session: Forensic Epic 1830-1840 8. There and Back: Emigrant Epic 1840-1850 9. On Impulse: Spasmodic Epic 1850-1860 10. In Plight of Troth: Mythological Epidc 1860-1870 11. For All the Wor…
Epic
The Very Idea
This preliminary chapter undertakes three tasks. Against combined theoretical dismissal and literary-historical neglect, it defends the 19th-century viability of epic, which at that juncture like others in its long history proved neither impossible nor monstrous, but rather paradoxical in ways of which the best practitioners were keenly aware and to which they responded creatively. There follows a working definition of epic correlated with discus…
On Calliope's Jalopy
The book's proper narrative commences in this chapter. Into the 18th century's preponderantly theoretic disposition to prize or illustrate epic as a fixed idea or classic form, the Revolution in France sent shock waves that galvanized literary experimentation in Britain. Poets of the 1790s rebuilt epic from used and jury-rigged parts, in a process that favored specimen or torso models and that the chapter brings into focus around the issue of ‘ma…
Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals
Tactical Formalism
of Caroline Levine's Strategic Formalism, and is indeed inspired by a conviction of her essay/manifesto's importance. She wants to invigorate our reading of culture by making us better readers of form; so do I. Advancing this agenda at the present time is going to involve, as Levine's emphases demonstrate, both some therapeutic work at the level of theory and some calisthenic working-out at the level of practice. We need to relax the taboo on for…
Rossetti's Goblin Marketing
Recent criticism putting the market back in Christina Rossetti's ''Goblin Market'' (1862) makes, and leaves, space for consideration of the poem's relation to marketing-as-advertising. Written to be read by adults in silence as if out loud to children, the poem trades in the mystique of a virtual orality that is structurally analogous to its goblin merchants' mystification, through promotional language, of both the nature of their retail business…
A Companion to Victorian Literature & Culture
The Fix of Form
Charlottesville Fin de siècle XX O thou that after toil and storm Mayst seem to have reached a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, or — as the undersigned trusts to find you still — Dear Reader, T HERE WAS A TIME when the New Criticism taught you to pay attention to literary form as the embodied elaboration of meaning. You knew that authors had a design on you, but you learned to bracket questions of int…
Hit and Myth
House Arrest
decade stood those anni mirabiles 1819-20, with the Peterloo massacre, the Cato Street Conspiracy, the accession of George IV, the trial of Queen Caroline, and the writing and publication of major works by Byron, Shelley, and Keats-to say nothing of Blake's Jerusalem, which is just what everyone did. Within ten years the big bang of 1820 had subsided to a steady hum: all of these poets had died, and so had the prospect of thoroughgoing political …
The Epic Plight of Troth in Idylls of the King
Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism
Tennyson and Swinburne as Romantic Naturalists
Browning's Lyric Intentions
The Fix of Form
Charlottesville Fin de siècle XX O thou that after toil and storm Mayst seem to have reached a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, or — as the undersigned trusts to find you still — Dear Reader, T HERE WAS A TIME when the New Criticism taught you to pay attention to literary form as the embodied elaboration of meaning. You knew that authors had a design on you, but you learned to bracket questions of int…
Unsettled Scores
Tactical Formalism
of Caroline Levine's Strategic Formalism, and is indeed inspired by a conviction of her essay/manifesto's importance. She wants to invigorate our reading of culture by making us better readers of form; so do I. Advancing this agenda at the present time is going to involve, as Levine's emphases demonstrate, both some therapeutic work at the level of theory and some calisthenic working-out at the level of practice. We need to relax the taboo on for…
Rossetti's Goblin Marketing
Recent criticism putting the market back in Christina Rossetti's ''Goblin Market'' (1862) makes, and leaves, space for consideration of the poem's relation to marketing-as-advertising. Written to be read by adults in silence as if out loud to children, the poem trades in the mystique of a virtual orality that is structurally analogous to its goblin merchants' mystification, through promotional language, of both the nature of their retail business…
House Arrest
decade stood those anni mirabiles 1819-20, with the Peterloo massacre, the Cato Street Conspiracy, the accession of George IV, the trial of Queen Caroline, and the writing and publication of major works by Byron, Shelley, and Keats-to say nothing of Blake's Jerusalem, which is just what everyone did. Within ten years the big bang of 1820 had subsided to a steady hum: all of these poets had died, and so had the prospect of thoroughgoing political …
Browning's Lyric Intentions
Browning's Lyric Intentions
Tennyson and Swinburne as Romantic Naturalists
Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism
The Epic Plight of Troth in Idylls of the King
House Arrest
decade stood those anni mirabiles 1819-20, with the Peterloo massacre, the Cato Street Conspiracy, the accession of George IV, the trial of Queen Caroline, and the writing and publication of major works by Byron, Shelley, and Keats-to say nothing of Blake's Jerusalem, which is just what everyone did. Within ten years the big bang of 1820 had subsided to a steady hum: all of these poets had died, and so had the prospect of thoroughgoing political …
Hit and Myth
The Fix of Form
Charlottesville Fin de siècle XX O thou that after toil and storm Mayst seem to have reached a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, or — as the undersigned trusts to find you still — Dear Reader, T HERE WAS A TIME when the New Criticism taught you to pay attention to literary form as the embodied elaboration of meaning. You knew that authors had a design on you, but you learned to bracket questions of int…
A Companion to Victorian Literature & Culture
Rossetti's Goblin Marketing
Recent criticism putting the market back in Christina Rossetti's ''Goblin Market'' (1862) makes, and leaves, space for consideration of the poem's relation to marketing-as-advertising. Written to be read by adults in silence as if out loud to children, the poem trades in the mystique of a virtual orality that is structurally analogous to its goblin merchants' mystification, through promotional language, of both the nature of their retail business…
Tactical Formalism
of Caroline Levine's Strategic Formalism, and is indeed inspired by a conviction of her essay/manifesto's importance. She wants to invigorate our reading of culture by making us better readers of form; so do I. Advancing this agenda at the present time is going to involve, as Levine's emphases demonstrate, both some therapeutic work at the level of theory and some calisthenic working-out at the level of practice. We need to relax the taboo on for…
Epic
1. The Very Idea: Epic in the Head 2. On Calliope's Jalopy: Epic Rebuilt 1790-1800 3. Under Correction: Epic Conscripted 1800-1805 4. In Expiation: Epic Atonement 1805-1815 5. in Style: Epic Plush 1815-1820 6. To the Ending Doom: Epic Apocalypse 1820-1830 7. In Session: Forensic Epic 1830-1840 8. There and Back: Emigrant Epic 1840-1850 9. On Impulse: Spasmodic Epic 1850-1860 10. In Plight of Troth: Mythological Epidc 1860-1870 11. For All the Wor…
Epic
The Very Idea
This preliminary chapter undertakes three tasks. Against combined theoretical dismissal and literary-historical neglect, it defends the 19th-century viability of epic, which at that juncture like others in its long history proved neither impossible nor monstrous, but rather paradoxical in ways of which the best practitioners were keenly aware and to which they responded creatively. There follows a working definition of epic correlated with discus…
On Calliope's Jalopy
The book's proper narrative commences in this chapter. Into the 18th century's preponderantly theoretic disposition to prize or illustrate epic as a fixed idea or classic form, the Revolution in France sent shock waves that galvanized literary experimentation in Britain. Poets of the 1790s rebuilt epic from used and jury-rigged parts, in a process that favored specimen or torso models and that the chapter brings into focus around the issue of ‘ma…
Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals
Afterword
Journal Article Afterword Get access Herbert F. Tucker Herbert F. Tucker 1University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2009, Pages 255–260, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550209000824 Published: 01 January 2009
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…
The Mindfulness of Poems
This deft monograph studies with care the careful study that major Victorian poets made of the thinking, feeling mind, in relation to both the brain it increasingly seemed made from and the soul it increasingly seemed to supplant. Tate convenes texts of three kinds from the mid-nineteenth century: writings on psychology, also known as the philosophy or science of mind (Matthew Allen, Perceval Lord, especially G.H. Lewes), poetry reviews and, what…
The Victorian Problem with Joy
Whatever happened to joy, once the Romantic poets had bequeathed it to the Victorians as a cultural resource, and before it reappeared on the edge of Modernism, inverted but proud, as the exotic an
Unsettled Scores
After Magic
What charm is we, by definition, can’t quite say: it notoriously eludes the language that would fix it analytically into semantic place. But its ineffability or discursive resistance occupies a theoretically complex and historically informative relation to the antique or outlandish quality – I call it irreference – of the language of magic charms: the spells whereby a sorcerer uses words not to mean something but to do something. This conjunction…
Formalism
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Northern Epic
With striking consistency Morris’s 1877 epic Sigurd meets the principal criteria of its genre. The poem makes its story the vehicle for conveying culturally definitive lore and values, and imbues its heroic actors with the aim of earning a place in that story. The first paginal opening of the 1898 Kelmscott edition embodies this consistency, in imagery and typography that constitute a bibliographical and prosodic rite of passage inducting the rea…
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