To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 262
... NOVELS The rise of the novel in the eighteenth century is the triumph of the particular , however we may explain the novel's coming into being . Two major tendencies feed into the central event . The mock heroic of Cervantes and his ...
... NOVELS The rise of the novel in the eighteenth century is the triumph of the particular , however we may explain the novel's coming into being . Two major tendencies feed into the central event . The mock heroic of Cervantes and his ...
Page 282
... novel an historical awareness that may be enormously compelling , as it is in Leslie Fiedler's discussion , but that tends to obscure the response the novel demands in its own terms . We may prefer our historical myth to the novel ...
... novel an historical awareness that may be enormously compelling , as it is in Leslie Fiedler's discussion , but that tends to obscure the response the novel demands in its own terms . We may prefer our historical myth to the novel ...
Page 293
... novel . " Amis overlooks the appeal of Fielding to writers like Stendhal and Gide , who achieved in considerable measure what the postwar English novel has at- tempted . But his point is important , and it is the kind of critical view ...
... novel . " Amis overlooks the appeal of Fielding to writers like Stendhal and Gide , who achieved in considerable measure what the postwar English novel has at- tempted . But his point is important , and it is the kind of critical view ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND LIBERTY | 79 |
Copyright | |
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achieve aesthetic Almanzor Amelia Antony assertion Augustan awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force forms freedom gives happiness harmony heart heaven hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live Lovelace lovers MacFlecknoe man's Mandeville Mandeville's marriage meaning Milton mock Moll Moll Flanders moral move nature never novel once Oothoon order of charity order of mind Pascal passion pastoral pattern picturesque play pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's pride rational reason Reynolds satire scene seeks seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury Songs of Experience soul spirit spiritual music Sterne sublime Swift Theotormon things Thomson thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence Tristram Tristram Shandy turn Urizen virtue vision words worldly
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Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam No preview available - 1999 |