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The Genres of Thomson's The Seasons (Hardcover)
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The Genres of Thomson's The Seasons (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Text & Print Culture
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Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of
James Thomson's composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744,
1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to
established genres both Classical and modern. The textual condition
of the work is complicated by the fact that it started as a
stand-alone poem, Winter (1726), but was subsequently expanded-as
part of a revision process that lasted almost two decades-through
the addition of three further seasons poems. Transforming from
primarily devotional poem to georgic account of the role of man's
laboring role in the creation, the meaning of The Seasons shifted
with each addition of new material. Each revision introduced
diverse subject matter while existing material was reorganized and
occasionally moved from one season installment to another. The
Genres of Thomson's The Seasons is the first collection of essays
exclusively devoted to the study of the work's formal
heterogeneity, polyvocality, and polygeneric character. All
contributions examine the different modes (descriptive, reflective,
pastoral, hymnal, amatory, epic, georgic, dramatic), discourses
(political, sentimental, scientific), and kinds that cooperate to
make up the different installments and variants of The Seasons.
They probe the multifarious interactions between different genres
and modes and how a renewed focus on the form of Thomson's long
poem will result in an understanding of the processual character of
The Seasons as a synthesizing simulacrum of various discourses and
theories of composition. The volume's essays map the generic
anatomy of the poem in its different incarnations. They shed light
on the poet's conception of the descriptive long poem and his
engaging with formal traditions that would have enabled
contemporaneous readers to conceive of The Seasons as an
assimilating and learned work to be read through both the works of
the Classics and moderns. Contributions revisit models explaining
the structural complexity of The Seasons, proposing others in their
stead, and consider Thomson as the author of a long poem in
relation to other poets both English and (in a transnational study)
Swedish. The poem is furthermore contextualized in terms of
sexuality and animal studies.
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