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A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry


A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Christine Gerrard

38,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.04.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9781405171922
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 624

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<b>A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY</b> <p><b>A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY</b><BR>Edited by Christine Gerrard <p>This wide-ranging <i>Companion</i> reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. <p> The <i>Companion</i> opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s <i>The Rape of the Lock</i> to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s <i>Town Eclogues</i>. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The <i>Companion</i> gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s <i>Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology</i> (3<sup>rd</sup> edition, 2014).
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Acknowledgments xv</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /> <i>Christine Gerrard</i></p> <p><b>Part I Contexts and Perspectives 5</b></p> <p>1 Poetry, Politics, and the Rise of Party 7<br /> <i>Christine Gerrard</i></p> <p>2 Poetry, Politics, and Empire 23<br /> <i>Suvir Kaul</i></p> <p>3 Poetry and Science 38<br /> <i>Clark Lawlor</i></p> <p>4 Poetry and Religion 53<br /> <i>Emma Mason</i></p> <p>5 Poetic Enthusiasm 69<br /> <i>John D. Morillo</i></p> <p>6 Poetry and the Visual Arts 83<br /> <i>Robert Jones</i></p> <p>7 Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace 97<br /> <i>George Justice</i></p> <p>8 Women Poets and Their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain 111<br /> <i>Charlotte Grant</i></p> <p>9 Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility 127<br /> <i>Jennifer Keith</i></p> <p><b>Part II Readings 143</b></p> <p>10 John Gay, The Shepherd’s Week 145<br /> <i>Mina Gorji</i></p> <p>11 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and “Eloisa to Abelard” 157<br /> <i>Valerie Rumbold</i></p> <p>12 Jonathan Swift, the “Stella” Poems 170<br /> <i>Ros Ballaster</i></p> <p>13 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems 184<br /> <i>Isobel Grundy</i></p> <p>14 James Thomson, The Seasons 197<br /> <i>Christine Gerrard</i></p> <p>15 Stephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 209<br /> <i>John Goodridge</i></p> <p>16 Mary Leapor, “Crumble-Hall” 223<br /> <i>David Fairer</i></p> <p>17 Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination 237<br /> <i>Adam Rounce</i></p> <p>18 Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes 252<br /> <i>David F. Venturo</i></p> <p>19 William Collins, “Ode on the Poetical Character” 265<br /> <i>John Sitter</i></p> <p>20 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 277<br /> <i>Suvir Kaul</i></p> <p>21 Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno 290<br /> <i>Chris Mounsey</i></p> <p>22 Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village 303</p> <p><i>Caryn Chaden </i></p> <p><i> </i></p> <p>23 William Cowper, The Task 316<br /> <i>Freya Johnston</i></p> <p>24 Robert Burns, “Tam o’ Shanter” 329<b><br /> </b><i>Murray Pittock</i></p> <p><b>Part III Forms and Genres 339</b></p> <p>25 Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse 341<br /> <i>Richard Bradford</i></p> <p>26 Epic and Mock-Heroic 356<br /> <i>Richard Terry</i></p> <p>27 Verse Satire 369<br /> <i>Brean Hammond</i></p> <p>28 The Ode 386<br /> <i>Margaret M. Koehler</i></p> <p>29 The Georgic 403<br /> <i>Juan Christian Pellicer</i></p> <p>30 The Verse Epistle 417<br /> <i>Bill Overton</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Themes and Debates 429</b></p> <p>31 The Constructions of Femininity 431<br /> <i>Kathryn R. King</i></p> <p>32 Whig and Tory Poetics 444<br /> <i>Abigail Williams</i></p> <p>33 The Classical Inheritance 458<br /> <i>David Hopkins</i></p> <p>34 Augustanism and Pre-Romanticism 473<br /> <i>Thomas Woodman</i></p> <p>35 Recovering the Past: Shakespeare, Spenser, and British Poetic Tradition 486<br /> <i>Carolyn D. Williams</i></p> <p>36 The Pleasures and Perils of the Imagination 500<br /> <i>Paul Baines</i></p> <p>37 The Sublime 515<br /> <i>Shaun Irlam</i></p> <p>38 Poetry and the City 534<br /> <i>Markman Ellis</i></p> <p>39 Cartography and the Poetry of Place 549<br /> <i>Rachel Crawford</i></p> <p>40 Rural Poetry and the Self-Taught Tradition 563<br /> <i>Bridget Keegan</i></p> <p>41 Poetry Beyond the English Borders 577<br /> <i>Gerard Carruthers</i></p> <p>Index 590</p>
<p><b>Christine Gerrard</b> is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. She is the author of <i>Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector, 1685—1750</i> (2003) and <i>The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725—1742</i> (1994), and editor of <i>The Cambridge Edition of The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family</i> (2013). She is the co-editor, with David Fairer, of <i>Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology</i> (3<sup>rd</sup> edition, 2014).</p>
<p><b>A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY</b><BR>Edited by Christine Gerrard</p> <p>This wide-ranging <i>Companion</i> reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. <p> The <i>Companion</i> opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s <i>The Rape of the Lock</i> to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s <i>Town Eclogues</i>. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The <i>Companion</i> gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s <i>Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology</i> (3<sup>rd</sup> edition, 2014).

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