Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth CenturyJHU Press, 01.11.2015 - 312 Seiten Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on private experience and self-perception developed in lyric poetry. In Lyric Generations, Gabrielle Starr rejects the genealogy of lyric poetry in which Romantic poets are thought to have built solely and directly upon the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. She argues instead that novelists such as Richardson, Haywood, Behn, and others, while drawing upon earlier lyric conventions, ushered in a new language of self-expression and community which profoundly affected the aesthetic goals of lyric poets. Examining the works of Cowper, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats in light of their competitive dialogue with the novel, Starr advances a literary history that considers formal characteristics as products of historical change. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice. |
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... Richardson (although Percy quoted Pamela in his letters and admired Richardson's work).∞∞ What matters is that the ballad is fleshed out with events integral to Clarissa, in terms not only of plot, but also of character and moral aims ...
... Richardson, and Burney. These novelists employed a variety of strategies to perform the rhetorical function at the heart of novel fiction: to tell us how novels are to be read, how their worlds are to be mapped onto ours, whether ...
... Richardson's Clarissa, ''writing to the moment'' equates writing and emotion: life always exceeds the speed of the pen (as we learn in Tristram Shandy), and the writer falls inevitably behind.≥≠ The matter most important to writing ...
... Richardson's coup. Critics have since paid fruitful attention to the history of the structural and formal principles of epistolary expression.∞ Letters are only rudimentary frames for whatever they carry—instructions for one's executor ...
... Richardson was more varied.≥ Jocelyn Harris points out that Richardson published Sidney's sonnets in 1724 and knew (and quoted) Herrick, Herbert, and Donne as well.∂ In fact, there was a of available models for emotional intensity ...
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Lyric and Letter in Behn Haywood and Pope | 47 |
Sympathy Displacement and Self into the Midcentury | 72 |
Chiasmus Convention and Lyric | 101 |
5 The Limits of Lyric and the Space of the Novel | 125 |
6 The Novel and the New Lyricism | 159 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 275 |
Index | 293 |
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