Satire and Sentiment, 1660–1830 - Hardcover

Rawson, Claude Julien

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521383951 ISBN 13: 9780521383950

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Claude Rawson examines some decisive moments in satire of the period 1660-1830. In a sequence of linked essays he focuses on major English writers, both within a contemporaneous European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical predecessors and leading on to later authors.

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Claude Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing in the period 1660–1830. In a sequence of linked chapters, some new and others revised substantially from earlier articles, he focuses on English writers from Rochester to Austen, both within a contemporaneous European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical and sixteenth-century Humanist predecessors (Homer, Virgil, Erasmus, Montaigne) and leading to later writers like Flaubert and Yeats. Within the period 1660–1830 satire moved from an unusually dominant position to a relatively modest one, softened by the cult of 'sensibility' or 'sentiment'. The transition was connected with large social and cultural changes culminating in the French Revolution. Rawson's method is to concentrate on stress points, on evasions and internal contradictions, and on continuities and discontinuities with earlier and later periods and with literatures and modes of thought outside Britain.

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Book by Rawson Claude Julien

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521383951
• ISBN 13: 9780521383950
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 327