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xxiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Transits: literature, thought & culture |
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Poetry, novels, people, things / Courtney Weiss Smith -- Part I: Reconsidering genres : rising, borrowing, circulating. -- Heroic couplets and eighteenth-century heroism : Pope's complicated characters / Sophie Gee -- "The battle without killing" : Eliza Haywood and the politics of attempted rape / Kate Parker -- The novel's poem envy : mid-century fiction and the "Thing poem" / Christina Lupton and Aran Ruth -- "To delineate the human mind in its endless varieties" : integral lyric and characterization in the tales of Amelia Opie / Shelley King -- Part II: Reconsidering subjects and objects. -- Undividing the subject of literary history : from James Thomson's poetry to Daniel Defoe's novels / Wolfram Schmidgen -- The rise of the novel and the fall of personification / Heather Keenleyside -- "Light electric touches" : Sterne, poetry, and empirical erotics / David Fairer -- "Great labour both of mind and tongue" : articulacy and interiority in Young's Night thoughts and Richardson's Clarissa / Joshua Swidzinski -- The art of attention : navigating distraction and rhythms of focus in eighteenth-century poetry / Natalie Phillips -- Coda: Time, space, and the poetic mind of the novel / Margaret Doody. |
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English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Poetics.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
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English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
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Poetics. (OCoLC)fst01067682
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Parker, Kate, 1980- editor.
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Smith, Courtney Weiss, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781611484830 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1611484839 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781611484847 (electronic) |
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1611487021 |
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9781611487022 |
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