| The 18th Century Mock Heroic P Contributor(s): Broich, Ulrich (Author), Wilson, David Henry (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0521309654 ISBN-13: 9780521309653 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.032 |
| LCCN: 89031617 |
| Series: European Studies in English Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.18 lbs) 250 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mock-heroic poetry is one of the most characteristic genres of English neoclassicism in the eighteenth century, including not only masterpieces such as Pope's The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad, but also numerous minor poems. This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions, and the history of the mock-heroic genre. Broich first shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the characteristics of various discourses--epic, comedy, parody, satire, and occasional poetry. Later, he traces the history of mock-heroic poetry: its foreign sources, its beginnings in England, the rivalry with other forms of comic narrative, and its decline in the second half of the eighteenth century. |