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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... combines it easily with the new " affective individualism . ” He makes a point of presenting himself as a man of the world , but not really a rake , a sceptic but not a nihilist , risqué rather than obscene . It is only in Swift that ...
... combines it easily with the new " affective individualism . ” He makes a point of presenting himself as a man of the world , but not really a rake , a sceptic but not a nihilist , risqué rather than obscene . It is only in Swift that ...
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... combines literary , social , and religious disparagement . But the later Parnell might well have agreed himself . He ... combine his Protestant moralism and personal religious earnestness with styl- ishness and moderation , and the ...
... combines literary , social , and religious disparagement . But the later Parnell might well have agreed himself . He ... combine his Protestant moralism and personal religious earnestness with styl- ishness and moderation , and the ...
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... combine rural order and Stuart hierarchy with the benefits of the new commerce . The poem has a richer sense of the aristocratic tradi- tions of leisure than others in the period , and Pope succeeds , despite his personal dislike for ...
... combine rural order and Stuart hierarchy with the benefits of the new commerce . The poem has a richer sense of the aristocratic tradi- tions of leisure than others in the period , and Pope succeeds , despite his personal dislike for ...
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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