A. D. Cousins

The Donna Angelica and the British Enlightenment Poets (eBook, ePUB)

Six Studies from Butler to Crabbe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to study how a vital element of European Renaissance culture, the motif of the angelic lady, is translated into the British Enlightenment by some major seventeenth- as well as eighteenth-century poets. It offers a close study of the motif's various modernization, locating that inclusively within the history of ideas

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040104644
• Artikelnr.: 72283689

Autorenporträt

A.D. Cousins is Emeritus Professor of English at Macquarie University. He is the author or co-author of many books on early modern British literature and culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Samuel Butler: Hudibras and the Lady
3. The Donna Angelica in John Dryden's 'To the Lady Castlemaine' and Other
Writings, Chiefly to Patronesses
4. Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift: Belinda, and the Unfortunate Lady;
Celia, Chloe, and Stella
5. Samuel Johnson: Stella, Irene and Aspasia
6. George Crabbe. The Library and The Village: Old Myths Made New; Old
Myths Abandoned
7. Afterword
Index