Mock-heroic is the exemplary genre of the English Augustan era: it
is one of the few genres that the Augustans invented themselves,
and it stands in a symbolic relation to a culture still reverential
of the grandeurs of the classical past and uneasy about its ability
to emulate them. Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper shows the
protean nature of mock-epic at this time. It recounts the rise of
mock-heroic, discusses the properties of the form, and explores its
relation both to classical epic and to contemporary genres such as
the poetic travesty and the novel. It also tracks the relation of
mock-heroic to the concept to the sublime, especially to the low
sublime unwittingly perfected by Richard Blackmore. Terry goes
beyond previous commentators in arguing that mock-heroic was not
merely a conventional genre, but also provided a supple discourse
through which writers could represent a range of personal and
social issues. He identifies mock-heroic properties in the
Mandevillian discourse of economics and in the rhetoric of male
gallantry towards women, in which women were simultaneously
elevated and put down. He also sees mock-heroic as informing the
idea of divine grace in the poetry and letters of William Cowper.
Mixing a historical approach with incisive close readings, Terry
provides a powerful re-evaluation of the form.
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