Rhetorics of Order/ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical LiteratureJohn Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter University of Delaware Press, 1989 - 200 pages This collection of essays on the rhetorics of order in English neoclassical literature includes Rose A. Zimbardo's investigation of generic slippage between drama and novel in works by Dryden and Behn; Maynard Mack's analysis of Pope's enduring rhetorics of presentation; and Patricia Meyer Spacks's examination of the heroines of Clarissa and the Italian. |
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... less printable or memorable— became prized for its calm and confident forms and structures , which imitated " the eighteenth - century mind . " Literature was seen to re- flect an ordered universe in highly ordered forms , often ...
... less printable or memorable— became prized for its calm and confident forms and structures , which imitated " the eighteenth - century mind . " Literature was seen to re- flect an ordered universe in highly ordered forms , often ...
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... less explicit it seems to have been . Not only does " wit " itself have an array of meanings , as even the casual reader of An Essay on Criticism soon suspects , but it has its own oppositional story through the late - seventeenth and ...
... less explicit it seems to have been . Not only does " wit " itself have an array of meanings , as even the casual reader of An Essay on Criticism soon suspects , but it has its own oppositional story through the late - seventeenth and ...
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... less dramatic role than Clarissa's in the novelistic action . She , too , however , tries to formulate her own story ; her relation to the narrative she attempts to construct elucidates Radcliffe's compelling preoccupations . If ...
... less dramatic role than Clarissa's in the novelistic action . She , too , however , tries to formulate her own story ; her relation to the narrative she attempts to construct elucidates Radcliffe's compelling preoccupations . If ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces | 23 |
The Late SeventeenthCentury Dilemma | 46 |
Copyright | |
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