John Regan

Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-90 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790 explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography in the eighteenth century, deepening our understanding of the relationship between poetry and ideas of progress with sustained attention to aesthetic, historical, antiquarian and prosodic texts from the period. Its central contention is that the historians and theorists of the time did not merely instrumentalize verse in the construction of narratives of human progress, but that the aesthetics of verse had a kind of agency - it determined the character of - historical knowledge of the period. With numerous examples from poems and writing on poetics, Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790 shows how the poetic line became a site at which one could make assertions about human development even as one experienced the expressive effects of metred language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783087747
• Artikelnr.: 52381960

Autorenporträt

John Regan is a research fellow in English literature at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests centre on the cultural dialogue between poetics and historical writing in the long eighteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: The Cultural Logic of Progress
Part Two: ElocutionaryPoetics in the Context of 'Taste'
1. Progress by Prescription
2. Thomas Sheridan and the Divine Harmony of Progress
Part One: Harmony Articulated
Part Two: From Disinterestedness to the Divine
3. 'There Is a Natural Propensity in the Human Mind to Apply Number and Measure to Every Thing We Hear': Monboddo, Steele and Prosody as Rhythm
Part One: Monboddo's Theory of Linguistic Progress
Part Two: Steele's Emphasis
Part Three: Rhythm as Prosody
4. '[C]ut into, distorted, twisted': Thomas Percy, Editing and the Idea of Progress
Part One: The Stadial Antiquarian
Part Two: Prosody as Pressure Point
5. 'Manners' and 'Marked Prosody': Hugh Blair and Henry Home, Lord Kames
Afterword: Rude Manners, 'Stately' Measures: Byron and the Idea of Progress in the New Century
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.