Changing Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, 1650-1820

Murray Roston

Published by Princeton University Press 1990

Changing Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, 1650-1820

Murray Roston

Volume 1066 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400860913

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Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds in his or her own way. Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture. "A sumptuous book. . . . Clearly and gracefully written and cogently argued, Roston's admirable achievement is of paramount significance to literary studies, to cultural and art history, and to aesthetics. . . . Outstanding."--Choice

Originally published in 1990.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
LATE BAROQUE
1. MILTON'S HERCULEAN SAMSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. DRYDEN'S HEROIC DRAMAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
ROCOCO
3. POPE'S EQUIPOISE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
4. THE EMERGENCE OF THE NOVEL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
PRE-ROMANTICISM
5. THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE SUBLIME Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
6. BLAKE'S INWARD PROPHECY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
7. THE "INCONVENIENCE" OF JANE AUSTEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
ROMANTICISM
8. LOWERING SKIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
9. THE CONTEMPLATIVE MODE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
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