Experiments in genre in eighteenth-century literature
By: Sandro Jung (ed.).
Publisher: Academia Press; Distributor, rest of the world, UPNE
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gent; Lebanon, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789038216638
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Literaturgattung
Description: "Assembling a range of original scholarly essays on the literature of the long eighteenth century, this collection is concerned primarily with the exploration of the complex field, and authors' uses, of genre and form. The contributors address issues of the development and progress of epic conventions, architectural design in fiction, formal and generic hybridity in the works of Sarah Fielding, and the revision process and overall plan of Thomson's The Seasons. Other contributions aim to historicise genres, especially graveyard poetry and the labouring-class "work" poem, and investigate modes of travel writing or the intergeneric collaboration of pictorial language and sentimentalism in the tableau tradition. The multifarious landscape of literary production and the processes of generic experimentation and innovation are charted, and the essays in this collection provide important interventions on the significance of formal criticism for modern historicising literary scholarship."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Sandro Jung; title: The nature of epic :; title: Margaret Cavendish's Poems and fancies and the construction of a "new" English epic ideology  -- Michael Rex; title: James Thomson's A poem sacred to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton and the revisions to The seasons :; title: new science and poetics in the eighteenth century  -- Carson Bergstrom; title: Inventing the long-poem  -- Sandro Jung; title: The historicity of reading graveyard poetry  -- Eric Parisot; title: "Work" poems :; title: assessing the Georgic mode of eighteenth-century working-class poetry  -- Corey E. Andrews; title: "They have one more eye than we" :; title: the (significant) forms of China in eighteenth-century description and travel literature  -- Joseph Sample; title: Sarah Fielding and the non-canonical novel :; title: form and function in The cry  -- Mary Rooks; title: Novel forms and borrowed texts :; title: genre and the interpretative challenge in Sarah Fielding  -- Christopher D. Johnson; title: Moving pictures :; title: the sentimental tableau in eighteenth-century literature  -- Cecilia Feilla; title: Politics and travel :; title: Robert Bage's cosmopolitan imagination -- Pam Perkins.