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Author:   Sandro Jung ,  Kwinten Van De Walle ,  Carson Bergstrom ,  Sandro Jung
Publisher:   Lehigh University Press
Imprint:   Lehigh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9781611462784

ISBN 10:   1611462789
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   30 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A Note on the Text List of Figures Introduction Sandro Jung & Kwinten Van De Walle Structure and Form: The Making of the Long Poem Chapter One: Richard Blackmore, James Thomson, Alexander Pope and the Creation of the Eighteenth-Century Long Poem Carson Bergstrom Chapter Two: Poetic Description and the Formation of Genre: Thomson's Summer and Mallet's The Excursion Sandro Jung Chapter Three: From Inter- to Intratextuality: Autumn as the Conclusion to The Seasons Kwinten Van De Walle Poetic Voice, Experimentation, and Generic Modulation Chapter Four: The Lyric Self in The Seasons Christopher R. Miller Chapter Five: Eschatology and the Pindaric Ode in James Thomson's Winter (1726) Thomas Van der Goten Chapter Six: Be-longing: Thomson's Soft Assemblage and the Erotics of Genre Kate Parker Chapter Seven: The Articulation of Genre in The Seasons Juan Christian Pellicer Revisiting the Georgic Chapter Eight: The Golden Age and Iron Times: Pastoral and Georgic in Spring Tess Somervell Chapter Nine: 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 Chapter Ten: The European Georgic and the Politics of Genre: Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna and The Seasons in Sweden Alfred Sjoedin Index About the Contributors About the Editors

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The collection brings together a brilliant series of interrelated essays by international scholars on the most pressing questions to be asked about The Seasons today: What kind of work is it, georgic, loco-descriptive, or a novel hybrid amalgam of poetic kinds? How should it be compared to the other long poems that come before and after it? How does the poem reconfigure the animal and vegetable world into an expression of plenitude at once religious and erotic? Their answers open Thomson's work onto a welcome variety of formal, aesthetic, and eco-critical approaches designed to stimulate further discussion. -- Timothy Erwin, Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas The Genres of The Seasons explores Thomson's most famous poem by comparing it to classical and contemporary analogues while foregrounding the striking modal differences within the poem and equally striking variations among its several iterations as Thomson developed his evolving thoughts about nature and creativity, time and complexity. Individual essays reveal how inconsistencies in this unstable poem are sources of beauty and philosophical depth; collectively the essays demonstrate how renewed attention to poetics can illuminate matters of equal concern to eighteenth-century poets and twenty-first-century readers. -- David Radcliffe, Professor of English, Virginia Tech University

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Sandro Jung is senior fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and the Hiob Ludolf senior fellow at the University of Erfurt’s Forschungszentrum Gotha. Kwinten Van De Walle is teaching fellow in English literature at Ghent University.

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