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A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY (BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO LITERATURE AND CULTURE)
ISBN: 1405113162
ISBN 13: 9781405113168
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Edition: 1 st
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL
Publication Date: Oct 02, 2006
Pages: 624
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ISBN 13: 9781405113168
Author:
Edition: 1 st
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL
Publication Date: Oct 02, 2006
Pages: 624
CollegeBookRenter.com does not guarantee that supplemental materials such as CDs and online access codes will be available with this book.
Book Summary
This broad-ranging Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry in all its rich variety.
This broad-ranging Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry in all its rich variety.
- An up-to-date and wide-ranging guide to eighteenth-century poetry.
- Reflects the dramatic transformation which has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades.
- Opens with a section on contexts, discussing poetry’s relationships with patriotism, politics, science, and the visual arts, for example.
- Discusses poetry by male and female poets from all walks of life.
- Includes numerous close readings of individual poems, ranging from Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to Mary Collier’s The Woman’s Labour.
- Includes more provocative contributions on subjects such as rural poetry and the self-taught tradition, British poetry 'beyond the borders', the constructions of femininity, women as writers and women as readers.
- Designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s Eighteenth-century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, Second Edition, 2003).
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