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Augustan literature
Author_Richard Terry
Boileau's Lutrin
British Language
Burlesque Humour
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classical epic parody
Cowper's Poem
Dryden's Mac Flecknoe
eighteenth-century poetry
English mock-epic tradition studies
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Exciting Laughter
False Sublime
fermor
flecknoe
form
gender and rhetoric
Heroi Comical Poems
Hobbesian Theory
john
Jonathan Wild
La Secchia Rapita
Le Bossu
Le Lutrin
leonard
literary discourse analysis
Low Burlesque
Low Sublime
mac
Mac Flecknoe
mennes
Mock Heroic Form
Mock Heroic Poem
Peri Bathous
poetic satire
Pope's Rape
sir
Sir John Mennes
Sofa
Sudden Glory
welsted
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754606239
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Mock-heroic is the exemplary genre of the English Augustan era: it is one of the few genres that the Augustans invented themselves, and it stands in a symbolic relation to a culture still reverential of the grandeurs of the classical past and uneasy about its ability to emulate them. Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper shows the protean nature of mock-epic at this time. It recounts the rise of mock-heroic, discusses the properties of the form, and explores its relation both to classical epic and to contemporary genres such as the poetic travesty and the novel. It also tracks the relation of mock-heroic to the concept to the sublime, especially to the low sublime unwittingly perfected by Richard Blackmore. Terry goes beyond previous commentators in arguing that mock-heroic was not merely a conventional genre, but also provided a supple discourse through which writers could represent a range of personal and social issues. He identifies mock-heroic properties in the Mandevillian discourse of economics and in the rhetoric of male gallantry towards women, in which women were simultaneously elevated and put down. He also sees mock-heroic as informing the idea of divine grace in the poetry and letters of William Cowper. Mixing a historical approach with incisive close readings, Terry provides a powerful re-evaluation of the form.
Richard Terry is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is the author of Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past 1660-1781 (2001), and has written numerous articles on the literary culture of the eighteenth century.
