Elizabeth R. Napier

Writing the Poetry of Place in Britain, 1700-1807

Self in Landscape

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the intrusion of personal voice in British landscape poetry of the eighteenth century. It argues that strong conventions, such as those marking topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds, providing cover for explorations into memory, personhood, and the workings of consciousness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781032188171
• ISBN-10: 1032188170
• Artikelnr.: 64102284

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth R. Napier is Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Middlebury College. She has published on, among other subjects, eighteenth-century English Gothic fiction, problems of embodiment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English fiction, and narrative strategies in the work of Daniel Defoe.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Pervious Landscapes: Pope, Wordsworth, Cowper
Chapter One The Weather Underground: Pope in "Ode on Solitude"
Chapter Two Bearing It Away: "The Solitary Reaper"
Chapter Three "What Can It Signify?": Finding the Subject in "On the
Ice-Islands Floating in the Germanic Ocean"
II. Landscapes of Loss: Duck, Goldsmith, Crabbe
Chapter Four "Lost, drown'd": The Problem of the Imagination in "The
Thresher's Labour"
Chapter Five Road to Nowhere: The Poetics of Absence in "The Deserted
Village"
Chapter Six Lost Cause: The Village and the Place of the Manners Tribute
III. Vanishings: Thomson, Gray, Smith
Chapter Seven "Conning Nature's Book": Body, Soul, Self, and Poetic Vision
in The Seasons
Chapter Eight Vanishing Point: Gray in the Eton Ode
Chapter Nine "Bearing the Cor'se to Land": Beachy Head
Epilogue
Works Cited

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List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Pervious Landscapes: Pope, Wordsworth, Cowper

Chapter One The Weather Underground: Pope in "Ode on Solitude"

Chapter Two Bearing It Away: "The Solitary Reaper"

Chapter Three "What Can It Signify?": Finding the Subject in "On the Ice-Islands Floating in the Germanic Ocean"

II. Landscapes of Loss: Duck, Goldsmith, Crabbe

Chapter Four "Lost, drown'd": The Problem of the Imagination in "The Thresher's Labour"





Chapter Five Road to Nowhere: The Poetics of Absence in "The Deserted Village"

Chapter Six Lost Cause: The Village and the Place of the Manners Tribute

III. Vanishings: Thomson, Gray, Smith

Chapter Seven "Conning Nature's Book": Body, Soul, Self, and Poetic Vision in The Seasons

Chapter Eight Vanishing Point: Gray in the Eton Ode

Chapter Nine "Bearing the Cor'se to Land": Beachy Head

Epilogue

Works Cited

Rezensionen

"This exemplary study of eighteenth-century landscape poetry explores the complex relationship of self and place to present new, original, and intelligent readings of a range of authors from the period."

-Dr Carol Bolton, Senior Lecturer in English, Loughborough University, UK.