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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... language of self-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 ...
... language of morality and discipline, the verse epistle produces a fiction of community to counter ''the haunting fear that one's own consciousness is all there is, and that the world and other people may be no more than figments of the ...
... language from which correctness and purity in diction are produced.≥≤ The romantic era, for him, registers the falling away of this base: ''poets ... could be guided no longer, in their choice of language, by the conversational images ...
... language of emotion in Clarissa have focused on the influence of drama or epistolary works, the emotional repertoire available to Richardson was more varied.≥ Jocelyn Harris points out that Richardson published Sidney's sonnets in 1724 ...
... language are undoubtedly to be traced into the vehement affections of the mind.''≤∞ Hebrew poetry is both morally and aesthetically important for Lowth because of its ''extraordinary forms of expression, which are indeed possessed of ...
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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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