A companion to eighteenth-century poetry / edited by Christine Gerrard.
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TextSeries: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 44.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, 2006Description: 1 online resource (623 pages)Content type: - text
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A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY
A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY
Edited by Christine Gerrard
This wide-ranging Companion 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.
The Companion 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 The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift's "Stella" poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Town Eclogues . Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion 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 Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University) Part I: Contexts and Perspectives: 1. Poetry, Politics and the Rise of Party: Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University) 2. Poetry, Politics, and Empire: Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania) 3. Poetry and Science: Clark Lawlor (University of Northumbria at Newcastle) 4. Poetry and Religion: Emma Mason (University of Warwick) 5. Poetic Enthusiasm: John D. Morillo (North Carolina State University) 6. Poetry and the Visual Arts: Robert Jones (University of Leeds) 7. Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace: George Justice (University of Missouri-Columbia) 8. Women Poets and their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Charlotte Grant (formerly Senior Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior) 9. Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility: Jennifer Keith (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Part II: Readings: 10. John Gay, The Shepherd's Week: Mina Gorji (Magdalen College, Oxford University) 11. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard": Valerie Rumbold (University of Birmingham) 12. Jonathan Swift, The "Stella" Poems: Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford) 13. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems: Isobel Grundy (University of Alberta, Canada) 14. James Thomson, The Seasons: Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University) 15. Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour: John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University) 16. Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall": David Fairer (University of Leeds) 17. Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination: Adam Rounce (Keele University) 18. Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes: David F. Venturo (College of New Jersey) 19. William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character": John Sitter (University of Notre Dame) 20. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard: Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania) 21. Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno: Chris Mounsey (University of Winchester) 22. Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village: Caryn Chaden (DePaul University) 23. William Cowper, The Task: Freya Johnston (University of Warwick) 24. Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter": Murray Pittock (Manchester University) Part III: Forms and Genres: 25. Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse: Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, Coleraine) 26. Epic and Mock-Heroic: Richard Terry (University of Sunderland) 27. Verse Satire: Brean Hammond (University of Nottingham) 28. The Ode: Margaret M. Koehler (Otterbein College) 29. The Georgic: Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo) 30. The Verse Epistle: Bill Overton (Loughborough University) Part IV: Themes and Debates: 31. The Constructions of Femininity: Kathryn R. King (University of Montevallo, Alabama) 32. Whig and Tory Poetics: Abigail Williams (St Peter's College, Oxford University) 33. The Classical Inheritance: David Hopkins.
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