Mock-heroic poetry is one of the most characteristic genres of
English neoclassicism in the eighteenth century. Derived from
French models, the mock-heroic became something more than merely a
parody of the serious epic: relieved of its gravity, it was
nevertheless a legitimate and independent form of epic poetry. This
book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the
conventions and the history of the mock-heroic genre. In the first
part, Ulrich Broich shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the
characteristics of various discourses - epic, comedy, parody,
satire and occasional poetry. The 'polyphonic' genre which emerges
from this analysis stands in ironic contrast to the neoclassical
ideal of decorum in a harmonious unity of discourse and form. The
second part traces the history of mock-heroic poetry: its foreign
sources, its beginnings in England, the 'rivalry' with other forms
of comic narrative, and its decline in the second half of the
eighteenth century.
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