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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... period and in J. C. D. Clark's view of England as an “ ancien régime . ” 2 The great interest in politeness in the period is certainly unde- niable . James Miller , writing in 1738 , complained that it had become the " Coxcomb's Av'rice ...
... period and in J. C. D. Clark's view of England as an “ ancien régime . ” 2 The great interest in politeness in the period is certainly unde- niable . James Miller , writing in 1738 , complained that it had become the " Coxcomb's Av'rice ...
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... period is another attempt to combat the artifices and insincerities of society . It is obviously a part of that " affective individualism , " the emphasis on personal feeling and the domestic virtues , that Lawrence Stone regards as the ...
... period is another attempt to combat the artifices and insincerities of society . It is obviously a part of that " affective individualism , " the emphasis on personal feeling and the domestic virtues , that Lawrence Stone regards as the ...
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... period . They preserve in this way a quasi - aristocratic wit and stylishness , while evading the need to write in the longer kinds . Satire , that traditional corrective of mores , though regarded as characteristic of this period , was ...
... period . They preserve in this way a quasi - aristocratic wit and stylishness , while evading the need to write in the longer kinds . Satire , that traditional corrective of mores , though regarded as characteristic of this period , was ...
Inhalt
Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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