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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Aaron Santesso |
ISBN: | 9780874139457 0874139457 |
OCLC Number: | 67239513 |
Description: | 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Elegiac and pastoral nostalgia -- Gray and the emergence of the modern nostalgia poem -- Varieties of historical nostalgia from Gray to Beattie -- Goldsmith and the poetics of nostalgia -- Cowper, Crabbe, and mock-nostalgia. |
Responsibility: | Aaron Santesso. |
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Abstract:
Examines the emergence of a new genre during the eighteenth century: the nostalgia poem. This genre is best understood by reconceiving the premises of nostalgia itself, examining it as first and foremost a mode of idealization rather than a longing for the past. This book traces the history of the nostalgia poem.
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