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The Epistolary Moment - The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle (Hardcover)
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The Epistolary Moment - The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was
an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as
raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on
internal audience in poetry--the audience "inside" the poem,
created by its discourse and belonging to its world--as this
divides in epistolary poetry into a double or simultaneous register
of address: the audience directly addressed by the letter-writer,
and an epistolary audience listening in on the exchange from a
point external to the discourse of the speaker but internal to the
discourse of the poem. Epistolary audience lies, contends The
Epistolary Moment, at the heart of an Augustan theory of poetry as
ideological intervention, poems as symbolic acts with enormous
consequences in the domain of the real. The emergence of the verse
epistle as the dominant form in eighteenth-century poetry thus
takes as its ultimate context the origins of eighteenth-century
solipsism in a degraded modernity symbolized by Sir Robert Walpole
and his Robinocracy, the demonic representatives of a new money or
market society arising from the ruins of organic or traditional
community. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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