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Two months before he died, Dryden published a collection of verse
translations and original poetry, Fables Ancient and Modern, the
work for which he was most admired throughout the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Cedric Reverand argues that Fables, which has
for the most part escaped modern scrutiny, embodies a purposeful,
subversive strategy, and constitutes a new poetic mode that emerged
when the laureate, public spokesman for king and country, lost his
official post and became an outcast, a minority voice. In Dryden's
Final Poetic Mode, Reverand focuses on Dryden's characteristic
concerns-love and war, power and kingship, the heroic code, the
Christian ideal-tracing how Dryden assembles informing ideals and
yet dissolves them as well. By examining Dryden's treatment of
familiar issues, Reverand demonstrates that this final poetic mode
is not discontinuous with the earlier poetry bill is a further
development, a reevaluation of the principles that sustained the
poet throughout his career. Fables expresses Dryden's personal
experience dealing with a changed and changing world. With the
values he cherished crumbling, he is trapped into trying to
reconcile the irreconcilable. His book reveals the fragility of
various systems of value and the futility of discovering abiding
ideals in a universe of perpetual flux, but it also reveals a poet
who actively pursues meaning rather than surrendering to despair.
It is this attempt to accommodate to a changing, subversive world
that Reverand asserts is the impulse behind Fables and the central
issue of Dryden's life in the1690s. Dryden's Final Poetic Mode will
interest students and scholars of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century British literature.
During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel
Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of
“long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating
long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals;
or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe”
initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This
understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a
research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism.
Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario
a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An
introduction discusses Hornstein’s life and achievements,
revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the
early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on
the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of
publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural
legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by
the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined,
delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies. Published by Bucknell
University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University
Press.
Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the
unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable
man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished
eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements,
professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking
as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip
Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and
Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the
general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures.
Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling
and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s Rambler, while Cedric D.
Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope.
Contributors take up other topics significant to the field,
including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing
cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the
theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and
express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes
from Clingham’s former students and colleagues, including
original poetry.
During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel
Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of 'long'
eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running
research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by
converting daring ideas into lauded books, 'Gabe' initiated a
golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated
publishing magnate created a global audience for a research
specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper,
Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a
vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An
introduction discusses Hornstein's life and achievements, revealing
the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days
of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the
business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of
publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural
legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by
the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined,
delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies.
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