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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... gentry spent time in London every year , and the commercial boom made available a range of safe rentier incomes free from the obvious marks of trade and thus created the phenomenon of the so - called " pseudo - gentry " of the towns ...
... gentry spent time in London every year , and the commercial boom made available a range of safe rentier incomes free from the obvious marks of trade and thus created the phenomenon of the so - called " pseudo - gentry " of the towns ...
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... gentry , if not by birth , then by education , adoption , and certainly by ideology . The traditional elite ... gentry family with Cromwellian connec- tions . The gentry families of Gay and Swift are in decline . Pope was the son of a ...
... gentry , if not by birth , then by education , adoption , and certainly by ideology . The traditional elite ... gentry family with Cromwellian connec- tions . The gentry families of Gay and Swift are in decline . Pope was the son of a ...
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... gentry backgrounds or identification with the landed interest overlap with their support for aristocratic traditions , particularly in their sense of them- selves as writers , they also share the middling gentry's charac- teristic ...
... gentry backgrounds or identification with the landed interest overlap with their support for aristocratic traditions , particularly in their sense of them- selves as writers , they also share the middling gentry's charac- teristic ...
Inhalt
Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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