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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461375403321

Autore

Starr G. Gabrielle <1974->

Titolo

Lyric Generations : Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century / / G. Gabrielle Starr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2015., : Johns Hopkins University Press

Baltimore, Maryland

ISBN

1-4214-1911-4

Edizione

[Johns Hopkins paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/005

Soggetti

Engels

Romans

Lyriek

Lyric poetry

Literary form

English poetry

English fiction

Poesie lyrique - Histoire et critique

Genres litteraires - Histoire - 18e siecle

Poesie anglaise - 18e siecle - Histoire et critique

Roman anglais - 18e siecle - Histoire et critique

Lyric poetry - History and criticism

Literary form - History - 18th century

English poetry - 18th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Clarissa and the lyric -- Modes of absorption : lyric and letter in Behn, Haywood, and Pope -- Lyric tensions : sympathy, displacement, and self into the midcentury -- Rhetorical realisms : chiasmus, convention,



and lyric -- The limits of lyric and the space of the novel -- The novel and the new lyricism.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Lyric Generations, G. Gabrielle Starr rejects the usual genealogy of lyric poetry in which Romantic poets are thought to have built solely and directly upon the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. She argues instead the novelists such as Richardson, Haywood, Behn, and others, while drawing upon earlier lyric conventions, ushered in a new language of self-expression and community which profoundly affected the aesthetic goals of lyric poets. Examining the works of Cowper, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats in light of their competitive dialogue with the novel, Starr advances a literary history that considers formal characteristics as products of historical change. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice."--Jacket.