Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence

• Main Author: Hedley, Jane (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Poetry.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Poetry and Poetics.; Contemporary Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence investigates the ways in which some of our best poets writing in English have used poetic sequences to capture the lived experience of marriage. Beginning in 1862 with George Meredith's Modern Love, Jane Hedley's study utilizes the rubrics of temporal...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence
• Chapter 2: Resources and Lineage: Meredith's "Modern Love"
• Chapter 3: Time in the Context of Marriage
• Chapter 4: Making Us See Time
• Chapter 5: He said, She said: The Conversation That is a Marriage
• Chapter 6: Marital Dialoguein extremis
• Chapter 7: Triangulating the Marital Dyad
• Chapter 8: Telemachus' Burden
• Chapter 9: Gay Marriage: Something Old, Something New
• Index.