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The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem

The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem

Broich, Ulrich
Wilson, David Henry

Paperback

Series: European Studies in English Literature

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521144906
ISBN13: 9780521144902
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Aug 26 2010
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mock-heroic poetry is one of the most characteristic genres of English neoclassicism in the eighteenth century, including not only masterpieces such as Pope's The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad, but also numerous minor poems. This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions, and the history of the mock-heroic genre. Broich first shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the characteristics of various discourses--epic, comedy, parody, satire, and occasional poetry. Later, he traces the history of mock-heroic poetry: its foreign sources, its beginnings in England, the rivalry with other forms of comic narrative, and its decline in the second half of the eighteenth century.

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