Politeness and Poetry in the Age of PopeFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989 - 166 Seiten Interest in politeness in the eighteenth century is shown to reflect anxiety about social change and indicate a search for guidelines in a newly commercialized society. Evident is the dilemma of poets such as Parnell, Prior, Swift, Gay, and Pope. |
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... Gay too . He seeks to reimpose the old pattern of mores on the bewildering new politeness . Yet Gay's own work also reflects the slide from mores to politeness . The pattern of inversions in Gay is so insistent that , despite its ...
... Gay too . He seeks to reimpose the old pattern of mores on the bewildering new politeness . Yet Gay's own work also reflects the slide from mores to politeness . The pattern of inversions in Gay is so insistent that , despite its ...
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... Gay's lighthearted sprezzatura and wit , his quasi - aristocratic stylishness , is a part of his politeness , but it is complicated by a strong , old - fashioned , gentry sense of social justice and the place of the poor . He was ...
... Gay's lighthearted sprezzatura and wit , his quasi - aristocratic stylishness , is a part of his politeness , but it is complicated by a strong , old - fashioned , gentry sense of social justice and the place of the poor . He was ...
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... Gay's " Due Civilities " : The Ironies of Politeness 1. The Beggar's Opera 3.16 in John Gay , Dramatic Works , ed . John Fuller , 2 vols . ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1983 ) , 2:64 . References to Gay's plays are hence- forth to this ...
... Gay's " Due Civilities " : The Ironies of Politeness 1. The Beggar's Opera 3.16 in John Gay , Dramatic Works , ed . John Fuller , 2 vols . ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1983 ) , 2:64 . References to Gay's plays are hence- forth to this ...
Inhalt
Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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