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The genres of Thomson's "The seasons" / edited by Sandro Jung and Kwinten Van De Walle.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in text and print culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomson, James, 1700-1748. Seasons.
- Thomson, James.
- Thomson, James, 1700-1748--Criticism and interpretation.
- Thomson, James, 1700-1748.
- Seasons (Thomson, James).
- Literary form.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 219 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bethlehem [Pennsylvania] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
- Summary:
- "The Genres of Thomson's "The Seasons" brings together contributions examining the different generic modes and discourses in Thomson's descriptive long poem. It aims to provide a better understanding of the generic remit of The Seasons and of the transformation of poetic genres in the eighteenth century in general"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Richard Blackmore, James Thomson, Alexander Pope and the creation of the eighteenth-century long poem / Carson Bergstrom
- Poetic description and the formation of genre : Thomson's Summer and Mallet's The excursion / Sandro Jung
- From inter- to intratextuality : "Autumn" as the conclusion to The seasons / Kwinten van de Walle
- The lyric self in The seasons / Christopher R. Miller
- Eschatology and the Pindaric ode in James Thomson's Winter (1726) / Thomas Van der Goten
- Be-longing : Thomson's "soft assemblage" and the erotics of genre / Kate Parker
- The articulation of genre in The seasons / Juan Christian Pellicer
- The golden age and iron times : pastoral and georgic in "Spring" / Tess Somervell
- Fervent bees, dreaming dogs, human insects, and animal fellowship in the seasons : Thomson's revisionist georgic fauna and the works of peace / John D. Morillo
- The European georgic and the politics of genre : Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna and The seasons in Sweden / Alfred Sjödin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Genres of Thomson's "The seasons"
- ISBN:
- 9781611462784
- 1611462789
- OCLC:
- 1043566753
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