| William Cowper: Religion, Satire, Society Contributor(s): Brunström, Conrad (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611481910 ISBN-13: 9781611481914 Publisher: Bucknell University Press OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Dewey: 821.6 |
| Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Cultur |
| Physical Information: 207 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book re-examines the literary significance of poet and translator William Cowper (1731-1800). Too often, Cowper is pigeonholed as an eccentric, a hopeless depressive, or even as a religious lunatic. Often regarded as an 'early' Romantic, Cowper is reconsidered in this book in light of a rich eighteenth-century political and religious culture. Rather than read him as an old-fashioned Calvinist stranded in an increasingly secularized society, Cowper can be read as someone who well understood the increasingly imprecise and emotionalist quality of eighteenth-century religious discourse and who expressed this dominant tendency with uncanny insight. |