Ingram / Fowler Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse

Order in Variety
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-48763-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 295 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingram, Allan

Fowler, Joanna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Authors ' ' Biographies Professor Bill Overton, 1946-2012: A Personal Memoir; Hermann Josef Real Introduction; Allan Ingram and Joanna Fowler PART I: FORM AND INFLUENCE Pope ' 's Horatian Voice; Nigel Wood Celebrating Universal Beauty: Henry Brooke ' 's In-between Poetics; John Baker Argumentative Emphases in Pope ' 's An Essay on Man; Tom Jones ' 'Stricken Deer and Digressive Diplomacy ' ': The Influence of Matthew Prior upon William Cowper; Conrad Brunström PART II: SCIENCE AND NATURE ' 'When Universal Nature I Survey ' ': Philosophical Poetry Before 1750; Megan Kitching Metering Mineral Resources: Verse Jewels on Earth ' 's Treasures; Kevin Cope Deserted Village and Animated Nature: An Ecocritical Approach to Oliver Goldsmith; Brycchan Carey Footnotes to a Nation: Richard Llwyd ' 's Beaumaris Bay (1800); Elizabeth Edwards PART III: WOMEN ' 'S VERSE AND GENRES ' 'I wish the child, I call my own ' ': [Pro]Creative Experience in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Ashleigh Blackwood Figs and Fame: Envisioning the Future in Women ' 's Poetry; Mascha Hansen Women Poets and the Mock-Heroic Elegy; Joanna Fowler PART IV: SELF AND OTHERS Getting Personal: Swift ' 's Non-Public Poetry; Allan Ingram Blind 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 Dickson Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Baker, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Conrad Brunström, Maynooth University, Ireland
Ashleigh Blackwood, University of Northumbria, UK
Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, UK
Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University, USA
Elizabeth Edwards, University of Wales, UK
Joanna Fowler, University of Loughborough, UK
Mascha Hansen, University of Greifswald, Germany
Allan Ingram, University of Northumbria, UK
Tom Jones, University of St Andrews, UK
Megan Kitching Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Chris Mounsey, University of Winchester, UK
Hermann Josef Real, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany
Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Northumbria University, UK
Nigel Wood, Loughborough University, UK