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Prose Immortality, 1711-1819

Prose Immortality, 1711-1819

Sider Jost, Jacob

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0813936802
ISBN13: 9780813936802
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Feb 18 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.60 Depth: 9.80
Language: English

Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the eighteenth century, figures such as Joseph Addison, Edward Young, Samuel Richardson, Laetitia Pilkington, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell invented a new kind of literary immortality, built on the documentary power of prose. For eighteenth-century authors, the rhythms and routines of daily lived experience were too rich to be distilled into verse, and prose genres such as the periodical paper, novel, memoir, essay, and biography promised a new kind of lastingness that responded to the challenges and opportunities of Enlightenment philosophy and evolving religious thought.

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