Tennyson's Rapture

In the wake of the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, the subject of In Memoriam , Alfred Tennyson wrote a range of intricately connected poems, many of which feature pivotal scenes of rapture, or being carried away. This book explores Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation-theological, social, political, or personal-and as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics.