Landscapes of Eternal ReturnThis book is about the resonance and implications of the idea of eternal recurrence, as expounded notably by Nietzsche, in relation to a range of nineteenth century literature. It opens up the issue of repetition and cyclical time as a key feature of both poetic and prose texts in the Victorian Edwardian period. The emphasis is upon the resonance of landscape as a vehicle of meaning, and upon the philosophical and aesthetic implications of the