03035nam 2200565 a 450 991095563710332120251117065408.01-936249-70-7(CKB)2670000000081348(OCoLC)715191635(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456414(SSID)ssj0000483202(PQKBManifestationID)12160450(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483202(PQKBWorkID)10528550(PQKB)10133394(MiAaPQ)EBC3116062(Au-PeEL)EBL3116062(CaPaEBR)ebr10456414(OCoLC)922966517(BIP)13463753(EXLCZ)99267000000008134820060328d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA careful longing the poetics and problems of nostalgia /Aaron Santesso1st ed.Newark [Del.] University of Delaware Pressc20061 online resource (221 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-87413-945-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Elegiac and pastoral nostalgia -- Gray and the emergence of the modern nostalgia poem -- Varieties of historical nostalgia from Gray to Beattie -- Goldsmith and the poetics of nostalgia -- Cowper, Crabbe, and mock-nostalgia.This book examines the emergence of a new genre during the eighteenth century: the nostalgia poem. This genre is best understood by reconceiving the premises of nostalgia itself, examining it as first and foremost a mode of idealization rather than a longing for the past. From the poems that make up this genre, we have derived many of our modern ideas and images of nostalgia. In tracing the history of the nostalgia poem, this book also traces a pattern of "tropic change," in which a new genre is built around tropes extracted from the dying genres. This new genre then begins producing its own tropes; in the case of the nostalgia poem, these include idealized school days and ruined villages. As these tropes become overly familiar, the nostalgia poem genre itself begins to fall apart. This book reevaluates poems ranging from Dryden's Hastings elegy to Crabbe's The Village, showing how works as varied as Gray's Eton College Ode, Macpherson's forged epics, and Goldsmith's The Deserted Village are all part of a doomed literary experiment--an experiment that has nevertheless determined the course of modern nostalgic thought.English poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismNostalgia in literatureEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.Nostalgia in literature.821/.509353Santesso Aaron1972-1867993MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955637103321A careful longing4475782UNINA