Abstract:After Susy's untimely demise, Mark and Livy's near obsession with Tennyson's elegy “In Memoriam” was similar to that of many other bereaved parents of the era: it had become the preeminent “grieving book” of the nineteenth century. The poem powerfully captures the growing spiritual disillusionment and uncertainty of the century, and its depiction of the underlying violence of nature foreshadowed Darwin's “war of nature” metaphor in his book On the Origin of Species. This article proceeds into three areas of re… Show more
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