The baroque in English neoclassical literature
By: J. Douglas Canfield.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Baroque literature -- History and criticism.; Neoclassicism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Classicism in literature.
Description: "In this wide-ranging study, J. Douglas Canfield contends that baroque disruption persists even as English literature becomes more neoclassical. It pops up in the strangest places. It twists forms and meanings. From paradoxical, mysterious moments in Paradise Lost, amazing metaphorics in Cavendish and Philips, momentous materializations in Waller and Dorset, and revealing displacements in Buckingham and Rochester to outrageous attack in Dryden and Pope, astonishing ventriloquizing in Killigrew and Finch and Montagu, and eccentricity and grotesquerie in Gulliver's Travels - the baroque comes back to disturb neoclassical regularity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Milton : mysteriously meant; title: Cavendish and Philips : metaphysically meant; title: Waller and Etherege : materially meant; title: Dorset and Sedley : mischievously meant; title: Buckingham and Rochester : reflexively meant; title: Behn : paradoxically meant; title: Dryden : cryptically meant; title: Killigrew and Finch : ventriloquently meant; title: Rowe and Pope and Tonson/Gildon and Curll : parasitically meant; title: Pope : metaphorically meant; title: Pope : mockingly meant; title: Montagu : surrogately meant; title: Swift : eccentrically meant; title: Gay and Fielding : absurdly meant.