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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... called master , for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen , and shall be taken for a gentleman.4 This growth in the upper classes involved the gradual extension of what Norbert Elias has called " the ...
... called master , for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen , and shall be taken for a gentleman.4 This growth in the upper classes involved the gradual extension of what Norbert Elias has called " the ...
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... called " pseudo - gentry " of the towns . The new prosperity and the social conditions of London acceler- ated the assimilation of the financiers , the greater merchants , the better - educated professional men and the " pseudo - gentry ...
... called " pseudo - gentry " of the towns . The new prosperity and the social conditions of London acceler- ated the assimilation of the financiers , the greater merchants , the better - educated professional men and the " pseudo - gentry ...
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... called " the burden of the past " themselves . Their admiration for the great achievements of the classical poets leads them to regard emulation , at least emulation by other poets who lack a proper sense of their predecessors , as ...
... called " the burden of the past " themselves . Their admiration for the great achievements of the classical poets leads them to regard emulation , at least emulation by other poets who lack a proper sense of their predecessors , as ...
Inhalt
Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Addison and Steele Alexander Pope Arbuthnot aristocratic attitudes Beggar's Opera birth bourgeois C. J. Rawson Century Christian cited civility Clarendon Press classical commercial convention corrupt court wits Criticism cultural decorum demystified despite developments Dunciad E. P. Thompson Eighteenth elements elite England English epic Essay ethos example false sublime fashionable Gay's genteel Gentleman gentry genuine Horace ideal idleness imagery J. C. D. Clark John John Gay Jonson laureate poet leisure Leonard Welsted literary Literature London manners Matthew Prior McKeon Michael McKeon mock-heroic mode modern politeness moral norms obviously occasional verse old ideology Oxford panegyrical Parnell's pastoral patronage period poem poet poet's Poetics polish polite sentiment praise present Prior Prose quasi-aristocratic religious Renaissance Restoration court revealing role satire scepticism Scriblerian secular sense seriousness social society sprezzatura status stylishness Swift Thomas Parnell tion tone Tory town true University Press upper-class virtue Whig whole women write