The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature

by Canfield, J. Douglas; Canfield, Douglas J.

• ISBN13: 9780874138344
• ISBN10: 0874138345
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Summary

In this wide-ranging study, J. Douglas Canfield contends that baroque disruption persists even as English literature becomes more neoclassical. It pops up in the strangest places. It twists forms and meanings. From paradoxical, mysterious moments in "Paradise Lost, amazing metaphorics in Cavendish and Philips, momentous materializations in Waller and Dorset, and revealing displacements in Buckingham and Rochester to outrageous attack in Dryden and Pope, astonishing ventriloquizing in Killigrew and Finch and Montagu, and eccentricity and grotesquerie in "Gulliver's Travels--the baroque comes back to disturb neoclassical regularity.

Author Biography

J. Douglas Canfield is Regents Professor of English and Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Arizona, where he has spent the bulk of his career. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Florida. He has written broadly on English literature, especially Restoration drama, and on American literature, especially of the Southwest Borderlands. He also writes poetry and plays, and he has won several teaching awards, including the 1993 Arizona Professor of the Year from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(4)
J. PAUL HUNTER
Acknowledgments	13	(2)
Introduction	15	(6)
List of Abbreviations	21	(4)
1. Milton: Mysteriously Meant	25	(9)
2. Cavendish and Philips: Metaphysically Meant	34	(8)
3. Waller and Etherege: Materially Meant	42	(8)
4. Dorset and Sedley: Mischievously Meant	50	(13)
5. Buckingham and Rochester: Reflexively Meant	63	(14)
6. Behn: Paradoxically Meant	77	(14)
7. Dryden: Cryptically Meant	91	(16)
8. Killigrew and Finch: Ventriloquently Meant	107	(10)
9. Rowe and Pope and Tonson/Gildon and Curll: Parasitically Meant	117	(8)
10. Pope: Metaphorically Meant	125	(18)
11. Pope: Mockingly Meant	143	(11)
12. Montagu: Surrogately Meant	154	(10)
13. Swift: Eccentrically Meant	164	(10)
14. Gay and Fielding: Absurdly Meant	174	(14)
Concluding Meditation	188	(5)
Appendix Poems Less Readily Available	193	(24)
Notes	217	(18)
List of Secondary Works Cited	235	(8)
Index	243