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Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 (Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize)
Jacob Sider Jost
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Description for Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 (Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the eighteenth century, figures such as Joseph Addison, Edward Young, Samuel Richardson, Laetitia Pilkington, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell invented a new kind of literary immortality, built on the documentary power of prose. For eighteenth-century authors, the rhythms and routines of daily lived experience were too rich to be distilled into verse, and prose genres such as the periodical paper, novel, memoir, essay, and biography promised a ... Read more
Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the eighteenth century, figures such as Joseph Addison, Edward Young, Samuel Richardson, Laetitia Pilkington, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell invented a new kind of literary immortality, built on the documentary power of prose. For eighteenth-century authors, the rhythms and routines of daily lived experience were too rich to be distilled into verse, and prose genres such as the periodical paper, novel, memoir, essay, and biography promised a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936802
SKU
V9780813936802
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About Jacob Sider Jost
Jacob Sider Jost is Assistant Professor of English at Dickinson College, USA.
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