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0896724158
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Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature Edited by David H. Richter
As millennium approaches, interpreters of eighteenth-century literature have turned to various versions of cultural poetics, which view texts through lenses of class, race, gender and sexual orientation. Meanwhile literature itself has fallen from its lofty pinnacle within the ordering of the arts, and become merely one discursive practice among many. What has been gained and what lost as literary criticism becomes a branch of cultural history?
A dozen renowned scholars discuss each other’s work and attempt to come to terms with the central theoretical issues about which the discipline disagrees. Focusing primarily on Henry Fielding, the essays employ and defend positions within feminism, Marxism, Bourdelian analysis, queer theory, and cultural studies, along with a more theoretically savvy version of formalist criticism. In gathering together a dozen extraordinary essays from all regions of the ideological spectrum, this collection aspires to represent for the current decade what the Laura Brown/Felicity Nussbaum anthology The New Eighteenth-Century was for the last decade: a sampler and emblem of where the intellectual currents of our time have taken our profession.
The Closing of Masterpiece Theater: Henry Fielding and the Valorization of Incoherence; David H. Richter
Ideology and Literary Form: Novels at Work; Patricia Meyer Spacks replies
Ideology and Literary Form in Fielding's Tom Jones; John Richetti
Tom Jones: The Form in History;
Ralph W. Rader
Making Fielding's Novels Speak for Law and Order; Gerald J. Butler
Closing Down the Theatre, and Other Critical Abuses; Carol Houlihan Flynn
Jonathan Wild and True Crime Fiction; David H. Richter
The Question of Ideological Form: Arthur Young, the Argricultural Tour, and Ireland; Ian Ferris
Form as Meaning: Pope and the Ideology of the Couplet; J. Paul Hunter
The Rules of the Game; Or, Why Neoclassicism Was Never an Ideology; Trevor Ross
Desire and Mourning: The Ideology of the Elegy; George E. Haggerty
Inchbald's A Simple Story: An Anti-Ideological Reading; Michael Boardman
The Feminization of Ideology: Form and the Female in the Long Eighteenth Century; Laura Brown
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