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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... criticism. 2. English poetry—18th century—History and criticism. 3. Literary form—History—18th century. 4. Lyric poetry— History and criticism. I. Title. pr851.s63 2003 820.9'005—dc21820.9%005—dc21 2003006816 A catalog record for this ...
... critics have sometimes overlooked what the lyric was—hymns as well as odes, fragments embedded in longer poems as well as sonnets, drinking songs as well as ballads.∞ However, even with a sharpened awareness of the various shapes of ...
... critics like Bloom, Hartman, or Abrams, for example, the history of romantic lyric becomes something just shy of a history of poetry, a story of a set of disciplined transmissions, complex reflections, and transformations within a ...
... critics normally associate only the names, historical places, letters, editors, and first-person narrators of early novels with formal realism, as I will show, affective practices honed by amatory fiction are central to novelistic ...
... critics who, following Longinus, were concerned with ''pure poetry,'' ''a rarity that can reveal itself only occasionally in a long poem but, because the great soul is not completely fettered by the forms of discourse, may appear in ...
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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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