Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse

Order in Variety

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-09-01
Mått140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor295
Upplaga2015
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137487629

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John Baker, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, FranceConrad Brunström, Maynooth University, IrelandAshleigh Blackwood, University of Northumbria, UKBrycchan Carey, Kingston University, UKKevin Cope, Louisiana State University, USAElizabeth Edwards, University of Wales, UKJoanna Fowler, University of Loughborough, UKMascha Hansen, University of Greifswald, GermanyAllan Ingram, University of Northumbria, UKTom Jones, University of St Andrews, UKMegan Kitching Queen Mary, University of London, UK Chris Mounsey, University of Winchester, UKHermann Josef Real, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, GermanyLeigh Wetherall Dickson, Northumbria University, UKNigel Wood, Loughborough University, UK

AcknowledgementsAuthors ' ' BiographiesProfessor Bill Overton, 1946-2012: A Personal Memoir; Hermann Josef RealIntroduction; Allan Ingram and Joanna FowlerPART I: FORM AND INFLUENCEPope ' 's Horatian Voice; Nigel WoodCelebrating Universal Beauty: Henry Brooke ' 's In-between Poetics; John BakerArgumentative Emphases in Pope ' 's An Essay on Man; Tom Jones' 'Stricken Deer and Digressive Diplomacy ' ': The Influence of Matthew Prior upon William Cowper; Conrad BrunströmPART II: SCIENCE AND NATURE' 'When Universal Nature I Survey ' ': Philosophical Poetry Before 1750; Megan KitchingMetering Mineral Resources: Verse Jewels on Earth ' 's Treasures; Kevin CopeDeserted Village and Animated Nature: An Ecocritical Approach to Oliver Goldsmith; Brycchan CareyFootnotes to a Nation: Richard Llwyd ' 's Beaumaris Bay (1800); Elizabeth EdwardsPART III: WOMEN ' 'S VERSE AND GENRES' 'I wish the child, I call my own ' ': [Pro]Creative Experience in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Ashleigh BlackwoodFigs and Fame: Envisioning the Future in Women ' 's Poetry; Mascha HansenWomen Poets and the Mock-Heroic Elegy; Joanna FowlerPART IV: SELF AND OTHERSGetting Personal: Swift ' 's Non-Public Poetry; Allan IngramBlind Woman on the Rampage: Priscilla Pointon ' 's Grand Tour of the Midlands and the question of the legitimacy of sources for biography; Chris Mounsey' 'What a Creature is Man ' ': The Melancholia, Literary Ambition, and Manly Fortitude of Robert Burns; Leigh Wetherall DicksonBibliography Index