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The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on internal audience in poetry--the audience "inside" the poem, created by its discourse and belonging to its world--as this divides in epistolary poetry



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION. SOCIOPOETICS AND THE PROBLEM OF AUDIENCE, pg. 3*ONE. Lyric and Epistle, pg. 21*TWO. AUGUSTAN AUDIENCE, pg. 53*THREE. SATIRE AND EPISTLE, pg. 83*FOUR. The Commonwealth of Letters, pg. 112*FIVE. The Empire of Chaos, pg. 144*NOTES, pg. 177*POEMS CITED, pg. 193*WORKS CITED, pg. 201*INDEX, pg. 211

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691608655, 978-0691608655
      ISBN10: 0691608652

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on internal audience in poetry--the audience "inside" the poem, created by its discourse and belonging to its world--as this divides in epistolary poetry



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION. SOCIOPOETICS AND THE PROBLEM OF AUDIENCE, pg. 3*ONE. Lyric and Epistle, pg. 21*TWO. AUGUSTAN AUDIENCE, pg. 53*THREE. SATIRE AND EPISTLE, pg. 83*FOUR. The Commonwealth of Letters, pg. 112*FIVE. The Empire of Chaos, pg. 144*NOTES, pg. 177*POEMS CITED, pg. 193*WORKS CITED, pg. 201*INDEX, pg. 211

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