John Regan

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

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Produktbeschreibung

'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790' explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural, verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human development. That is, the aesthetics of verse - how poetry appeals to the senses as well as to the intellect - constitute inadequately appreciated forms of response to the ideas of progress which were developing and gaining popular traction in Britain in the period 1760-1790.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783087730
• Artikelnr.: 53294222

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.