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Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2 : Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKeon, Michael
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Bucknell University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Enlightenment > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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