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Title Eighteenth-century poetry and the rise of the novel reconsidered / edited by Kate Parker and Courtney Weiss Smith
Published Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 255 pages)
Series Transits: literature, thought & culture
Transits (Bucknell University)
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I RECONSIDERING GENRES: RISING, BORROWING, CIRCULATING -- 1. Heroic Couplets and Eighteenth-Century Heroism: Pope's Complicated Characters / Sophie Gee -- 2. "The Battle Without Killing": Eliza Haywood and the Politics of Attempted Rape / Kate Parker -- 3. Novel's Poem Envy: Mid-Century Fiction and the "Thing Poem" / Aran Ruth -- 4. "To delineate the human mind in its endless varieties": Integral Lyric and Characterization in the Tales of Amelia Opie / Shelley King -- pt. II RECONSIDERING SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS -- 5. Undividing the Subject of Literary History: From James Thomson's Poetry to Daniel Defoe's Novels / Wolfram Schmidgen -- 6. Rise of the Novel and the Fall of Personification / Heather Keenleyside -- 7. "Light Electric Touches": Sterne, Poetry, and Empirical Erotics / David Fairer -- 8. "Great Labour Both of Mind and Tongue": Articulacy and Interiority in Young's Night Thoughts and Richardson's Clarissa / Joshua Swidzinski -- 9. Art of Attention: Navigating Distraction and Rhythms of Focus in Eighteenth-Century Poetry / Natalie Phillips
Summary Bringing together work by distinguished and younger scholars, Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered takes seriously the connections between poetry and novels in the period between Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House and Amelia Opie's Romanic-era novels
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Poetics.
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
English poetry
Literature and society
Poetics
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Parker, Kate, 1980- editor of compilation.
Smith, Courtney Weiss, editor of compilation
LC no. 2021678157
ISBN 9781611484847
1611484847