Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered

Herausgeber: Parker, Kate; Smith, Courtney Weiss

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together work by distinguished and younger scholars, Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered takes seriously the connections between poetry and novels in the period between Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House and Amelia Opie's Romanic-era novels.

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Produktdetails

• Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781611487022
• ISBN-10: 1611487021
• Artikelnr.: 42655370

Autorenporträt

Kate Parker is assistant professor of English at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Her article on Sade appeared in Eighteenth- Century Fiction. She is writing a book that explores how affective communities impact literary representations of selfhood in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Courtney Weiss Smith is assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is the author of articles on eighteenth-century literature and culture that have appeared in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and SEL. Her current book project focuses on relationships between literature, religion and science in early eighteenth-century England.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Poetry, Novels, People,
Things 1 Courtney Weiss Smith Part I: Reconsidering Genres: Rising,
Borrowing, Circulating 1 Heroic Couplets and Eighteenth-Century Heroism:
Pope's Complicated Characters Sophie Gee 2 "The Battle Without Killing":
Eliza Haywood and the Politics of Attempted Rape Kate Parker 3 The Novel's
Poem Envy: Mid-Century Fiction and the "Thing Poem" Christina Lupton and
Aran Ruth 4 "To delineate the human mind in its endless varieties":
Integral Lyric and Characterization in the Tales of Amelia Opie Shelley
King Part II: Reconsidering Subjects and Objects 5 Undividing the Subject
of Literary History: From James Thomson's Poetry to Daniel Defoe's Novels
Wolfram Schmidgen 6 The Rise of the Novel and the Fall of Personification
Heather Keenleyside 7 "Light electric touches": Sterne, Poetry, and
Empirical Erotics David Fairer 8 "Great labour both of mind and tongue":
Articulacy and Interiority in Young's Night Thoughts and Richardson's
Clarissa Joshua Swidzinski 9 The Art of Attention: Navigating Distraction
and Rhythms of Focus in Eighteenth-Century Poetry Natalie Phillips Coda:
Time, Space, and the Poetic Mind of the Novel Margaret Doody Bibliography
Notes on Contributors