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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... objects of debased taste, have driven Milton into ''neglect.''∏ The competitions over right representation go to basic textures of language, differences between poetry and prose, and concepts of form dependent upon them. As literature ...
... objects of description (ordinary people; historically plausible times and places) and the manner of representation (letters, diaries, etc.): but beyond questions of mimesis, these techniques work to establish a relationship between the ...
... object of individual perception and of uncertainty—could seem to hem in individual selves; on the other, radical changes in British life—a new nation of Britons, an expanding empire—enforced pressures toward imagined community.∞∫ In ...
... object. In the first chapter I read Clarissa in the context of a set of its poetic antecedents in order to highlight formal and thematic connections between epistle and lyric. Chapter 2 undertakes a brief history of the interaction of ...
... objects at once, as thou passedst, as if ... to plume thyself upon the expected applauses of all that beheld thee! Thou that usedst to go to rest satisfied with the adulations paid thee in the past day, and couldst put off everything ...
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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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