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Richard Terry

Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper

An English Genre and Discourse

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Mock-heroic is the exemplary genre of the English Augustan era: it is one of the few genres that the Augustans invented themselves, and it stands in a symbolic relation to a culture still reverential of the grandeurs of the classical past and uneasy about its ability to emulate them. Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper shows the protean nature of mock-epic at this time. It recounts the rise of mock-heroic, discusses the properties of the form, and explores its relation both to classical epic and to contemporary genres such as the poetic travesty and the novel. It also tracks the relation of mock-heroic to the concept to the sublime, especially… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-351-91712-4
  • EAN: 9781351917124
  • Produktnummer: 22637191
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 11'896 KB

Über den Autor


Richard Terry is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is the author of Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past 1660-1781 (2001), and has written numerous articles on the literary culture of the eighteenth century.

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