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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... expression, and of a community of feeling and right. Clarissa responded to and helped create new generic conventions; it satisfied and raised readerly expectation. Percy's revisions were equally engaged in responding to and shaping ...
... expression in the long eighteenth century is cross-implicated by and in the languages of emotion in early novels. Novels exhibit two concurrent movements: one in which lyric conventions were reorganized and adapted in concord with ...
... expression in Augustan art, we are missing its presence in works whose shape, though not nominally lyrical, is yet ultimately adequate to the impress of ... personal pressure.''≤≠ In effect, lyric would expand, under cover as it were ...
... expression.∞ Letters are only rudimentary frames for whatever they carry—instructions for one's executor, lies to one's lover, pleas to cruel parents, guilt to friends. What is at stake in Richardson's representations of consciousness ...
... Clarissa copies and rereads his lament, finding in it a vocabulary and pattern of expression suiting her own troubled heart. Clarissa writes four ''meditations''; save one, they are transcriptions of biblical 18 Lyric Generations.
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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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