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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2017
... emergent, and some momentary and occasional. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Milton secret history parody Christian accommodation mock epic epic •
Paradise Lost,
Poem of the Restoration Period...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2002
..., which also makes
important observations about literary trends that coincided with the expan-
sion of the literary marketplace— the emergence of a new kind of prose
fiction (“the novel the advent of mock-epic writing, and the creation of
more generically...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
... and Belinda as artists is shaped by the
poem’s status as a mock epic, for the ekphrasis in The Rape of the Lock
clearly alludes to the trope’s heritage in the epic. Traditionally, Homer’s
elaborate description of Achilles’ shield has been considered the locus clas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 107–112.
Published: 01 January 2012
... he deployed to impose his voice on virtually the
entire period. Of Voltaire’s monumental oeuvre, Cronk writes, “Voltaire was
a master of . . . all literary genres. His writings include poetry in many dif-
ferent styles (epic, mock epic, ode, epistle, satire, and much occasional verse,
theatre...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2000
... (WD, 4:81–82). Tassoni’s
mock-epic piece is filled with regional color and squabble; it served, of course, as Boileau’s
model for Le Lutrin (1674), which in turn inspired Mac Flecknoe. By including Spenser’s and
Butler’s factional pieces in his list, Dryden sees...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
Published: 01 April 2016
... . . .
Gillray’s caricature” (121). Peter presents this mock-epic account of the visit
to Warton as a model for the appropriate expression of the qualities of the
king in verse. Furthermore, Peter offers himself as the poet best placed to
match form and theme, language and subject. That said, and from...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 214–224.
Published: 01 April 2001
... in revolutionary politics. Citizen Joel Barlow’s famous paean
to plain fare, “The Hasty Pudding,” was written in revolutionary France
and published in New York in 1796 during Brillat-Savarin’s residence
there.14 Canto I of Barlow’s mock epic explicitly rejected a cosmopolitan...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 134–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... on music
and performance owes largely to the youthful education of the queen, and
the sudden flourishing of mock-epic to a giddy mood of generic experiment.
We cannot speak in any comprehensive way of a coherent period style across
the arts during Anne’s brief reign, despite the signal usefulness...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 252–270.
Published: 01 April 2001
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cisely to differentiate it from the sub- or mock-philosophical poetry I am discussing. The
poem’s relation to Romantic “epomania”—the contemporary craze for epic—has been bet-
ter studied, but the genres of “epic” and “philosophical poem” converge in this period...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and playwright Joseph Yarrow, the poem appears
under the title “An Old Epitaph on Shakspear,” between Pope’s poetic
memorial to John Gay and a mock epitaph satirizing religion—“Under this
Stone lies prudent Dame Dorothy / Who honour’d the King, and ador’d
his Authority”—perhaps written by Charles Gildon...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 104–112.
Published: 01 January 2020
... Written in a Country Churchyard. The volume is at its most traditional in the Poetic Genres section, where we find the eighteenth- century genre system in miniature, with chapters on Pastoral (David Hill Radcliffe), Georgic (David Fairer), Epic (Anna Foy), Ode (Sandro Jung), and Elegy (James D...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 84–109.
Published: 01 January 2025
... avoid granting the request contained in his motto. Procul este serveri. Keep your distance, fellows, and I'll speak with you.” After nodding toward the mock-epic tone indicated by the allusion to the Sibyl's words from the sixth book of the Aeneid , the reviewer quotes an excerpt from Robertson's...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 33–54.
Published: 01 September 2015
... University Press 2015 panegyric epic apostrophe personification commemorative verse •
The Embarrassments of Restoration Panegyric:
Reconsidering an Unfashionable Genre
Noelle Dückmann Gallagher...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 January 2025
... explicit masquerading, mocks. The idea that the fatness of a woman signified a lack or loss of fertility is further reinforced by Lady Anne Hamilton's thinly veiled criticism of Maria Fitzherbert, the unsanctioned first wife of the Prince of Wales, later George IV, in her satirical Epics of the Ton...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 56–62.
Published: 01 April 2021
... as creatively active as Pope in the serious art of annotation, and its satirical variants. The Longman annotations situate each of the early poems in the context of Pope s entire oeuvre. As with the Rape of 1712, they reach ahead to works appearing after first publication, such as the Homeric epics and Pope s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 158–178.
Published: 01 January 2017
... verses, his epic Davideis, and other translations and imitations,
as well as his Montaigneian Essays, which sometimes contained substantial
original poetry. Yet for all his popularity, it seems to have been the pecu-
liar fate of Cowley to have his reputation continually called into question...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 93–97.
Published: 01 January 2012
...
and comedy, the procreation of farce and epic, at once pay homage to, and
burlesque, the active, selfmoving substance of Paradise Lost” (74), her fresh
account of the influence of Milton’s materialism on Pope’s poem comes at the
expense of a less schematic version of literary history, one that hears...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 65–82.
Published: 01 April 2010
... a single fleeting reference in Ludovico Ariosto’s epic
Orlando furioso, the literary source of the libretto. In fact, it is difficult to
find any simple explanation for Zoroastro’s presence in Orlando. In the
words of Handel scholar Winton Dean, Zoroastro’s “commanding figure
shifts the whole...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 20–43.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., Bute was the new king’s intellectual
companion, ideal chief minister, and, in a mocking term used repeatedly
against him, “favorite.” The meteoric rise of the “favorite,” from Groom
of the Stole in November 1760, to First Lord of the Treasury in May 1762,
his negotiation of the Treaty of Paris...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 109–114.
Published: 01 April 2014
...!
(Mr. Hayley, that is you) —
Ma’am, you carry all before you,
Trust me, Litchfield Swan, you do.
Ode didactic, epic, sonnet,
Mr. Hayley, you’re divine! —
Ma’am, I’ll take my oath upon it,
You alone are all the nine!
Richard Porson’s 1787 epigram mocks the ways...
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