Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850)

Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered begins with the brute fact that poetry jostled up alongside novels in the bookstalls of eighteenth-century England. Indeed, by exploring unexpected collisions and collusions between poetry and novels, this volume of exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. The novel poached from and featured poetry, and the “modern” subjects and objects privileged by “rise of the novel” scholarship are only one part of a world full of animate things and people with indistinct boundaries. Contributors: Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee, Heather Keenleyside, Shelley King, Christina Lupton, Kate Parker, Natalie Phillips, Aran Ruth, Wolfram Schmidgen, Joshua Swidzinski, and Courtney Weiss Smith. Heroic Couplets And Eighteenth-century Heroism: Pope's Complicated Characters / Sophie Gee -- The Battle Without Killing: Eliza Haywood And The Politics Of Attempted Rape / Kate Parker -- Novel's Poem Envy: Mid-century Fiction And The Thing Poem / Christina Lupton And Aran Ruth -- To Delineate The Human Mind In Its Endless Varieties: Integral Lyric And Characterization In The Tales Of Amelia Opie / Shelley King -- Undividing The Subject Of Literary History: From James Thomson's Poetry To Daniel Defoe's Novels / Wolfram Schmidgen -- Rise Of The Novel And The Fall Of Personification / Heather Keenleyside -- Light Electric Touches: Sterne, Poetry, And Empirical Erotics / David Fairer -- Great Labour Both Of Mind And Tongue: Articulacy And Interiority In Young's Night Thoughts And Richardson's Clarissa / Joshua Swidzinski -- Art Of Attention: Navigating Distraction And Rhythms Of Focus In Eighteenth-century Poetry / Natalie Phillips -- Coda: Time, Space, And The Poetic Mind Of The Novel / Margaret Doody. Edited By Kate Parker And Courtney Weiss Smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered begins with the brute fact that poetry jostled up alongside novels in the bookstalls of eighteenth-century England. Indeed, by exploring unexpected collisions and collusions between poetry and novels, this volume of exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. The novel poached from and featured poetry, and the "modern" subjects and objects privileged by "rise of the novel" scholarship are only one part of a world full of animate things and people with indistinct boundaries.--Amazon.com Bringing together work by distinguished and younger scholars, Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered takes seriously the connections between poetry and novels in the period between Andrew Marvell’s Upon Appleton House and Amelia Opie’s Romanic-era novels.