UID:
almafu_9959242084502883
Format:
1 online resource (281 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-61148-702-1
,
1-61148-484-7
Series Statement:
Transits : Literature, thought & Culture
Content:
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.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Poetry, Novels, People, Things -- Part I: RECONSIDERING GENRES: RISING, BORROWING, CIRCULATING -- Chapter 1: Heroic Couplets and Eighteenth-Century Heroism: Pope's Complicated Characters -- Chapter 2: "The Battle Without Killing": Eliza Haywood and the Politics of Attempted Rape -- Chapter 3: The Novel's Poem Envy: Mid-Century Fiction and the "Thing Poem" -- Chapter 4: "To delineate the human mind in its endless varieties": Integral Lyric and Characterization in the Tales of Amelia Opie -- Part II: RECONSIDERING SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS -- Chapter 5: Undividing the Subject of Literary History: From James Thomson's Poetry to Daniel Defoe's Novels -- Chapter 6: The Rise of the Novel and the Fall of Personification -- Chapter 7: "Light Electric Touches": Sterne, Poetry, and Empirical Erotics -- Chapter 8: "Great labour both of mind and tongue": Articulacy and Interiority in Young's Night Thoughts and Richardson's Clarissa -- Chapter 9: The Art of Attention: Navigating Distraction and Rhythms of Focus in Eighteenth-Century Poetry -- Coda: Time, Space, and the Poetic Mind of the Novel -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61148-483-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-28253-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
