Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry by Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Huber, Edinburgh University Press, 2023
Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry’s relation to time and argues that this relation is historically contingent – as the concept of time changes, so too do the shaping forms and definitions of poetry. Victorian literature provides a rich testing field for its hypothesis, since the nineteenth century saw momentous changes in the ways people thought about…