Richard Terry

Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper (eBook, PDF)

An English Genre and Discourse

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper explores the protean nature of mock-epic in the English Augustan era. It recounts the rise of mock-heroic, and explores its relation both to classical epic and to contemporary genres such as the poetic travesty and the novel. Terry goes beyond previous commentators in arguing that mock-heroic was not merely a conventional genre, but also provided a supple discourse through which writers could represent a range of personal and social issues. He discovers mock-heroic properties, for example, in the Mandevillian discourse of economics and in the rhetoric of male gallantry towards women. Mixing a historical approach with incisive close readings, Terry provides a powerful re-evaluation of the form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351917124
• Artikelnr.: 47955369

Autorenporträt

Richard Terry is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is the author of Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past 1660-1781 (2001), and has written numerous articles on the literary culture of the eighteenth century.