Isbn: 9780874135435 - faint praise and civil leer: the "decline" of eighteenth-century panegyric (2 Ergebnisse)

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 190 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: 1. "Panegyrike Congratulatorie" -- 2. Andrew Marvell's Political Poetry and the Panegyric Tradition -- 3. "Competing Versions:" The "Painter-Poems" and Annus Mirabilis -- 4. The Rehearsal Transpros'd: The Panegyrical Paratext (1) -- 5. From Cheated Sight to False Light: Analogy from Swift's "Odes" to A Tale of a Tub -- 6. The Preface as Vehicle in A Tale of a Tub: The Panegyrical Paratext (2) -- 7. Swift and Churchill: Postmodern Panegyrics. Subjects: English literature 18th century History and criticism. Laudatory poetry, English History and criticism. English language 18th century Rhetoric. Satire, English History and criticism. 1 Kg.…

First edition. 190 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in like dustjacket.