{"product_id":"eighteenth-century-poetry-and-the-rise-of-the-novel-reconsidered-9781611487022","title":"Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered begins with the brute fact that poetry jostled up alongside novels in the bookstalls of eighteenth-century England. Indeed, by exploring unexpected collisions and collusions between poetry and novels, this volume of exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. The novel poached from and featured poetry, and the “modern” subjects and objects privileged by “rise of the novel” scholarship are only one part of a world full of animate things and people with indistinct boundaries.   Contributors: Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee, Heather Keenleyside, Shelley King, Christina Lupton, Kate Parker, Natalie Phillips, Aran Ruth, Wolfram Schmidgen, Joshua Swidzinski, and Courtney Weiss Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is no shortage of scholarship on 18th-century fiction, and criticism of 18th-century verse is not far behind. For the most part, though, these are separate fields of study, and until now only G. Gabrielle Starr's Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century had taken their interaction seriously. Now two junior scholars, Parker and Smith, have brought together an international team of scholars to explore the relationships between the novel and poetry in 18th-century Britain. The contributors range from graduate students to the biggest names in the field, but all have produced learned, incisive, and original investigations into the points of contact between genres. The nine essays (and a chapter-length coda) range from close readings of individual works (Rape of the Lock, Night Thoughts, Pamela, Tristram Shandy) to ambitious attempts to rethink literary history itself. The contributors share no single 'program,' and they often disagree over both methods and conclusions. But they share a commitment to changing the traditional stories of the development of fiction and poetry. This major collection from Bucknell, a leader in 18th-century studies, is required reading for scholars. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eEighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered is a provocative and timely collection well worth the attention of the reader who wishes, as Smith states in her introductory remarks, to ‘grapple with unexpected collisions and collusions between poetry and novels’. . . .[The book] counts among the year’s best books in eighteenth-century studies. * Intelligencer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   List of Illustrations   Introduction: Poetry, Novels, People, Things 1 Courtney Weiss Smith  Part I: Reconsidering Genres: Rising, Borrowing, Circulating  1 Heroic Couplets and Eighteenth-Century Heroism: Pope’s Complicated Characters Sophie Gee  2 “The Battle Without Killing”: Eliza Haywood and the Politics of Attempted Rape Kate Parker  3 The Novel’s Poem Envy: Mid-Century Fiction and the “Thing Poem”  Christina Lupton and Aran Ruth  4 “To delineate the human mind in its endless varieties”: Integral Lyric and Characterization in the Tales of Amelia Opie Shelley King  Part II: Reconsidering Subjects and Objects  5 Undividing the Subject of Literary History: From James Thomson's Poetry to Daniel Defoe's Novels Wolfram Schmidgen  6 The Rise of the Novel and the Fall of Personification  Heather Keenleyside  7 “Light electric touches”: Sterne, Poetry, and Empirical Erotics  David Fairer  8 “Great labour both of mind and tongue”: Articulacy and Interiority in Young's Night Thoughts and Richardson's Clarissa Joshua Swidzinski  9 The Art of Attention: Navigating Distraction and Rhythms of Focus in Eighteenth-Century Poetry Natalie Phillips  Coda: Time, Space, and the Poetic Mind of the Novel Margaret Doody  Bibliography  Notes on Contributors","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041704968535,"sku":"9781611487022","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611487022.jpg?v=1750951379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eighteenth-century-poetry-and-the-rise-of-the-novel-reconsidered-9781611487022","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}