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Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2 : Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain
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Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2 : Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain.
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9781684484782
1684484782
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Chicago : Bucknell University Press, 2023.
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1 online resource ( 268 p.)
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De Gruyter University Press eBook 2023.
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Print version: McKeon, Michael. Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2. Chicago : Bucknell University Press, 2023
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English
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December 04, 2023
Contents
Cover
Frontispiece
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
(Neo)classic and Romantic
The Radical Break
Imitation and Expression, the Mirror and the Lamp
"Revolution"
Preromanticism
Modernism: Structuralism and Poststructuralism
"Rules" and the Genre System
The Novel Tradition
1. The Sciences as a Model for the Arts: A Synchronic Inquiry
Ancients and Moderns, Arts and Sciences
Experience and Experiment
Controlling for Time, Place, and Persons: The TwoUnities
Controlling for Time, Place, and Persons: The Dramatic Aesthetic
The New Principle of Pleasure
The Judgment of Aesthetic Value
The Aesthetic Imagination and the Origins of the Social Sciences
Controlling for Time, Place, and Persons: The Narrative Claim to Historicity
Novelistic Plots as Experimental Hypotheses
Controlling for Time, Place, and Persons: The Novel Aesthetic, or Realism
2. From Ancient Mimesis to Modern Realism: A Diachronic Inquiry
Aristotelian Mimesis
Verisimilitude: Italian Theory
Verisimilitude: French Theory
Probability: English Theory
Realism
The Rise of Fictionality?
3. The Historicity of Literary Conventions: Family Romance
The History of a Convention?
Literary Convention as Social Convention
Family Romance as Ideology
True Nobility in the Service of Patrilineal Nobility
True Nobility as Female
True Nobility as Puritan
Novelistic Parody of Patrilineal Nobility
Discovery Within
Conclusion
4. The Historicity of Literary Genres: Pastoral Poetry
What Is Pastoral?
Pastoral and Periodization
Capitalism Began in the Countryside
From Forms to Fetters?
Pastoral Poetry: Changing Places
Retreat
Locational Pastoral
Taking the Measure of the City
Renaissance Pastoral Parodied
Explicit Critique of the Pastoral Tradition
Object as Subject: Laboring Pastoral
Women's Pastoral
Pastoral Internalized: Micro-pastoral
Pastoral Externalized: Macro-pastoral
The North-South Axis
The East-West Axis
5. Political Poetry: Comparative Historicizing, 1650-1700, 1930-1980
The Modern Problemof Political Poetry
Politics as Form
Tradition: The Tacit Distinction of Politics and Poetry
State Poetry: The Enlightenment Emergence of "Political Poetry"
A Model: Religious Poetry and "Religious Poetry"
6. Paradise Lost as Parody: Period, Genre, and Conjectural Interpretation
Parody
Mock Epic
Christian Typology
Christian Accommodation
Domestication
Heroic Poetry
Secret History
Obviating Accommodation, Forgoing Domestication, Precluding Allegory
The Novel
Acknowledgments
Notes
Source Notes
Index
About the Author
Subjects
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Walter de Gruyter & Co. Rutgers University Press Complete 2023.
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