UID:
almafu_9959228791902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (352 p.)
ISBN:
1-280-75915-1
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1-4237-5726-2
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9786610759156
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0-19-153206-1
Inhalt:
Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices thatcaptured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal los
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Introduction: To Wander 'out of the Common Road'; PART I. STRATEGIC SELF-SOUNDING: VOICES RAISED FROM THE DEAD; 1. The 'Motion in Corruption' of Donne's Anniversaries; PART II. SOUNDING INTERIOR GARDENS AT MID-CENTURY; 2. Marvell's Watery Maze at Nun Appleton; 3. 'Lights Framed Like Nets' in Sir Thomas Browne's Garden; 4. Eve's 'Grateful Digressions' and the Birth of Reflection; PART III. STRATEGIC SELF-SOUNDING: MYSTERY, MALICE, AND MASTERY OF A VOICE; 5. Feminine Disguise in The Hind and the Panther; 6. The Obscure Progress of Satire in Dryden's Late Preface
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Epilogue: Wandered too far? Swift's Monstrous VoiceBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-926117-2
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-171759-2
Sprache:
Englisch
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