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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... in the original fragment. There, we have only an unnamed maiden relaying her father's threats to her lover; the Child's bravado in response; his charging off with her to meet her father and brothers; her father's Introduction 3.
... response and interpretation, not action or event, and the letter writer's perception of and response to the world around her occupy both the scene of writing and its substance.≥∞ For this reason, Clarissa is the starting point of this ...
... response expected by Clarissa and Richardson in regard to the Meditations. Job's and Clarissa's use of lyric paradigms of emotional responsiveness differ strongly from those visible in the preponderance of earlyeighteenth-century poetry ...
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Inhalt
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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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