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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Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century G. Gabrielle Starr. g. Acknowledgments. A version of Chapter 1 appeared as ''Clarissa's Relics and Lyric Community,'' Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 30 (2001): 127–51; parts of ...
... eighteenth century. These histories approach the eighteenth century almost as a wasteland, with a few oases named Thomson, Collins, Gray, or Warton. Such literary cartography has been challenged in recent years because of its historical ...
... Eighteenth-century literary history is steeped in seeming generic heterodoxies ranging from the literary influence of newspapers and political tracts to the crosspollination of high literary species. Lyric Generations is a genre history ...
... eighteenth century. It is not that Percy must be seen as borrowing from 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 ...
... eighteenth century. This is more a myth of romantic poetry than its history, however, for many more authors and texts would intervene in the history of lyric than Milton, Cowper, or Gray. Romantic self-fashioning was deeply invested in ...
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15 | |
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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