Satire and Sentiment, 1600â "1830 â " Stress Points in the English Aogustan Tradition: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition

Satire and Sentiment 1660-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition.

kart. / Paperback. Zustand: Gut. XVI, 309 S. / p. Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Preface -- The studies collected in this book are concerned with the energies of a patrician culture in decline. In a sense, that culture was perhaps always in decline, or under stress, although the literary expressions or reflections of this were themselves extraordinarily vital. They were mostly the work of non-patrician authors. Rochester, at the beginning of my period, and Byron and Shelley at the end, are among the exceptions ( as is Fielding, about whom I have written elsewhere ) : but most of the authors treated extensively in these pages, Oldham, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Reynolds, Burke, Austen, are nonpatrician writers whose characteristic idiom, and whose loyalties and aspirations, are rooted in the classicising and patrician subculture we sometimes call 'Augustan' ( it is in this restricted sense that the term is used in this book, and not as a description of the period as a whole or any chronological subdivision of it ) . -- Certain incongruities or contradictions were inherent in the situation: the age-old love-hate relationship of the English with their aristocracy, the feeling that lords did not live up to lordly standards ( proclaimed in lordly accents by unlordly censors like Swift or Pope ) , the filtering down to Grub Street of a rhetoric of uppish contempt. Inevitably, the lordly ethos underwent various forms of embourgeoisement ( the mutation by Steele, Richardson, and others of old chivalric codes into the phenomenon Swift derided as 'fair-sexing', and the resublimation of this in Burke's political writings lamenting the ill-treatment of noble ladies in India and France, are examples; as is Jane Austen's domestication of ironies she derived, to an extent still underestimated, from Fielding ) . ISBN 9780300079166 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 432. Artikel-Nr. 1235352

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