Tennyson's Philological Medievalism

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SARAH WEAVER earned her PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. She is a program manager at Stanford University.

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Considers Tennyson's poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Conventions Used in This Volume Timeline of Relevant Events and Publications Introduction: Tennyson's Philological Literary Language 1. "Between the chaos and the cosmos of human speech": Seeking the Source of Meaning 2. "The people whose tongue we speak": Anglo-Saxons as Linguistic Ancestors 3. Removing the Veil of Custom and Familiarity 4. "All that men have been doing and thinking and feeling": Evoking and Invoking the Past Conclusion Bibliography Index