Presenting the past
Subtitle: philosophical irony and the rhetoric of double vision from Bishop Butler to T.S. Eliot
By: Robert James Merrett.
Series: ELS monograph series -- no. 91.
Publisher: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Victoria, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Discourse analysis, Literary; Irony in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Human nature's "inward frame" : the moral psychology of Bishop Joseph Butler; title: Rhetorical irony and humanist myth in Alexander Pope's The dunciad; title: Jane Austin and the "better knowledge of mankind"; title: The literary past and humanist futures : Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, and George Eliot, addressing and figuring children; title: Rhetoric and mythopoesis in T.S. Eliot's Four quartets.