LEADER 03035nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910955637103321 005 20251117065408.0 010 $a1-936249-70-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081348 035 $a(OCoLC)715191635 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456414 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483202 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12160450 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483202 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528550 035 $a(PQKB)10133394 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3116062 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3116062 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456414 035 $a(OCoLC)922966517 035 $a(BIP)13463753 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081348 100 $a20060328d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA careful longing $ethe poetics and problems of nostalgia /$fAaron Santesso 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNewark [Del.] $cUniversity of Delaware Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-87413-945-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aElegiac 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aEnglish poetry$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNostalgia in literature 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNostalgia in literature. 676 $a821/.509353 700 $aSantesso$b Aaron$f1972-$01867993 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955637103321 996 $aA careful longing$94475782 997 $aUNINA