Author: Rev. William DUFFPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Critical observations on the writings of the most celebrated original geniuses in poetry. Being a sequel to the Essay on original genius
Author: Rev. William DUFFThe Genius of Scotland
Author: Corey E AndrewsPublisher: Hotei Publishing
ISBN: 9004294376
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Genius of Scotland: The Cultural Production of Robert Burns, 1785-1834 explores the wide-ranging reception history of Robert Burns by examining the sources of his reputation as the ‘Genius of Scotland’ in the Scottish Enlightenment and beyond. Evaluating his changing stature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the book investigates the figure of Burns as a ‘cultural production’ that was constructed by warring cultural forces in the literary marketplace. The critical promotion of Burns as the ‘Heaven-taught ploughman’ greatly influenced his legacy as a labouring-class ‘genius’ and national icon, both of which relied on blatant censorship and distortion of his biography and works. The Genius of Scotland debunks both the hagiographic and vituperative representations of the poet from this period, revealing not only how (and why) he was culturally produced as a national ‘genius’ but also how the process continues to influence our understanding of Burns into the present day.
The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800
Author: Jack LynchPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199600805
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
In the most comprehensive, up-to-date account of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, a team of leading experts surveys the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity. They provide a systematic overview, and restore these poetic works to a position of centrality in modern criticism.
Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830
Author: Daniel CookPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137332492
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with ancient English literature. With Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the period, from the periodical press to the public lecture, from the review to the anthology, from textual to biographical criticism. Cook demonstrates that, while major scholars found Chatterton to be a pertinent subject for multiple literary debates in the eighteenth century, by the end of the Romantic period he had become, and still remains, an unsettling model of hubristic genius.
This Is Enlightenment
Author: Clifford SiskinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226761460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, “What is Enlightenment?” The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation. Enlightenment, they argue, needs to be engaged within the newly broad sense of mediation introduced here—not only oral, visual, written, and printed media, but everything that intervenes, enables, supplements, or is simply in between. With essays addressing infrastructure and genres, associational practices and protocols, this volume establishes mediation as the condition of possibility for enlightenment. In so doing, it not only answers Kant’s query; it also poses its own broader question: how would foregrounding mediation change the kinds and areas of inquiry in our own epoch? This Is Enlightenment is a landmark volumewith the polemical force and archival depth to start a conversation that extends across the disciplines that the Enlightenment itself first configured.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: S. Austin AlliboneScottish Notes and Queries
Author: John BullochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies
Author: George LewisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019989292X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Author: William Duff