Genres of Thomson's The Seasons (eBook)
250 Seiten
Lehigh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61146-282-1 (ISBN)
Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of James Thomson's composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744, 1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to established genres both Classical and modern. The textual condition of the work is complicated by the fact that it started as a stand-alone poem, Winter (1726), but was subsequently expandedas part of a revision process that lasted almost two decadesthrough the addition of three further seasons poems. Transforming from primarily devotional poem to georgic account of the role of man's laboring role in the creation, the meaning of The Seasons shifted with each addition of new material. Each revision introduced diverse subject matter while existing material was reorganized and occasionally moved from one season installment to another. The Genres of Thomson's The Seasons is the first collection of essays exclusively devoted to the study of the work's formal heterogeneity, polyvocality, and polygeneric character. All contributions examine the different modes (descriptive, reflective, pastoral, hymnal, amatory, epic, georgic, dramatic), discourses (political, sentimental, scientific), and kinds that cooperate to make up the different installments and variants of The Seasons. They probe the multifarious interactions between different genres and modes and how a renewed focus on the form of Thomson's long poem will result in an understanding of the processual character of The Seasons as a synthesizing simulacrum of various discourses and theories of composition. The volume's essays map the generic anatomy of the poem in its different incarnations. They shed light on the poet's conception of the descriptive long poem and his engaging with formal traditions that would have enabled contemporaneous readers to conceive of The Seasons as an assimilating and learned work to be read through both the works of the Classics and moderns. Contributions revisit models explaining the structural complexity of The Seasons, proposing others in their stead, and consider Thomson as the author of a long poem in relation to other poets both English and (in a transnational study) Swedish. The poem is furthermore contextualized in terms of sexuality and animal studies.
Sandro Jung is senior fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and the Hiob Ludolf senior fellow at the University of Erfurt’s Forschungszentrum Gotha.Kwinten Van De Walle is teaching fellow in English literature at Ghent University.
A Note on the TextList of Figures IntroductionSandro Jung & Kwinten Van De WalleStructure and Form: The Making of the Long PoemChapter One: Richard Blackmore, James Thomson, Alexander Pope and the Creation of the Eighteenth-Century Long PoemCarson BergstromChapter Two: Poetic Description and the Formation of Genre: Thomson’s Summer and Mallet’s The ExcursionSandro JungChapter Three: From Inter- to Intratextuality: “Autumn” as the Conclusion to The SeasonsKwinten Van De Walle Poetic Voice, Experimentation, and Generic ModulationChapter Four: The Lyric Self in The SeasonsChristopher R. MillerChapter Five: Eschatology and the Pindaric Ode in James Thomson’s Winter (1726)Thomas Van der GotenChapter Six: Be-longing: Thomson’s “Soft Assemblage” and the Erotics of GenreKate ParkerChapter Seven: The Articulation of Genre in The SeasonsJuan Christian PellicerRevisiting the GeorgicChapter Eight: The Golden Age and Iron Times: Pastoral and Georgic in “Spring”Tess SomervellChapter Nine: Fervent Bees, Dreaming Dogs, Human Insects, and Animal Fellowship in The Seasons: Thomson’s Revisionist Georgic Fauna and the Works of PeaceJohn D. MorilloChapter Ten: The European Georgic and the Politics of Genre: Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna and The Seasons in SwedenAlfred Sjödin IndexAbout the ContributorsAbout the Editors
Reihe/Serie | Studies in Text & Print Culture |
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Co-Autor | Carson Bergstrom, Kwinten Van De Walle, Thomas Van der Goten, Sandro Jung, Christopher R. Miller, John D. Morillo, Kate Parker, Juan Christian Pellicer, Alfred Sjodin, Tess Somervell |
Zusatzinfo | 3 Illustrations including: - 3 Black & White Illustrations. |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Genre Criticism • Literary Studies • New Formalism • Poetry Studies |
ISBN-10 | 1-61146-282-7 / 1611462827 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61146-282-1 / 9781611462821 |
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