Fiddled out of Reason (eBook)
270 Seiten
Lehigh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61146-161-9 (ISBN)
Fiddled out of Reason is a study of several poems spanning the life and career of Joseph Addison, who, along with John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Isaac Watts, and many British poets of the turn of the eighteenth century, helped to cultivate a broad new current of nonliturgical hymnic verse that became immensely popular across that century, though it has eluded critical notice until now. The texts the book examinesAddisons St. Cecilias Day odes (1692, 1699), his libretto for the opera Rosamond (1707), and a sequence of five hymnic works in The Spectator (1712)precede by twenty-five years John Wesleys publication of the first hymnal for use in the Church of England. The book argues that secular hymnic works such as Addisons emerged alongside religio-political controversies and anxieties about British national identity, morality, and expressions of enthusiastic passions. Church and Tory interests largely rejected hymnic verse, claiming it would only fiddle unwitting readers out of their reason and reignite the dangerous fervor of Revolution-era Nonconformity and Dissent. As is evident from his poetry, Addison, a moderate Whig, ardently opposed this view, arguing that the hymnic could in fact be a portal to national and individual amelioration. After an introductory chapter exploring period conceptions of hymnic poetry and the highly contested term hymn itself, the argument proceeds through three sections to trace the hymnics upward trajectory through Addisons early, mid-period, and mature verse. The book devotes the lions share of its attention to the last of these three, which includes the five-poem Spectator sequence (a poem from the sequence, The Spacious Firmament on High, will be familiar to many readers). Indeed, in addition to offering new readings of hymnic works by Dryden and Pope, Fiddled out of Reason provides the first extended critical treatment of these five important poems. Publication of the book coincides with the 300th anniversary of Addisons death and with the appearance of a new Oxford edition of Addisons nonperiodical writings.
John Knapp is visiting scholar in the English Department at the University of New Mexico and instructor of English and humanities at Albuquerque Academy.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. 1687–1699: The Hymnic Absconds from the Chapel1. "Let all Cecilia's Praise proclaim": The Hymnic and the St. Cecilia's Day Odes2. The Hymnic and The Cecilian Odes of Dryden and AddisonII. 1700–1712: The Hymnic Onstage and in The Spectator3. Rosamond and The Road to the Spectator Hymns4. The Spectator Turns to the Hymnic5. The Spectator and the Progress of the HymnicIII. July–October 1712: Addison's Hymnic Sequence6. The Poems of the Spectator SequenceEpilogueBibliographyIndexAbout the Author
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.4.2019 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | British Literature • eighteenth-century literature • Hymns • Literary Studies • music • Poetry • Religion • Religious Studies |
ISBN-10 | 1-61146-161-8 / 1611461618 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61146-161-9 / 9781611461619 |
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