The genres of Thomson's "The seasons"

The genres of Thomson's "The seasons" / edited by Sandro Jung and Kwinten Van De Walle.

"The Genres of Thomson's "The Seasons" brings together contributions examining the different generic modes and discourses in Thomson's descriptive long poem. It aims to provide a better understanding of the generic remit of The Seasons and of the transformation of poetic gen...

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Other Authors: Jung, Sandro (Editor), Walle, Kwinten (Kwinten Van De) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bethlehem [Pennsylvania] : Lanham, Maryland : Lehigh University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
Series:Studies in text and print culture.
Subjects:
Thomson, James, > 1700-1748. > Seasons.
Thomson, James, > 1700-1748 > Criticism and interpretation.
Literary form.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Richard Blackmore, James Thomson, Alexander Pope and the creation of the eighteenth-century long poem / Carson Bergstrom
  • Poetic description and the formation of genre : Thomson's Summer and Mallet's The excursion / Sandro Jung
  • From inter- to intratextuality : "Autumn" as the conclusion to The seasons / Kwinten van de Walle
  • The lyric self in The seasons / Christopher R. Miller
  • Eschatology and the Pindaric ode in James Thomson's Winter (1726) / Thomas Van der Goten
  • Be-longing : Thomson's "soft assemblage" and the erotics of genre / Kate Parker
  • The articulation of genre in The seasons / Juan Christian Pellicer
  • The golden age and iron times : pastoral and georgic in "Spring" / Tess Somervell
  • Fervent bees, dreaming dogs, human insects, and animal fellowship in the seasons : Thomson's revisionist georgic fauna and the works of peace / John D. Morillo
  • The European georgic and the politics of genre : Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna and The seasons in Sweden / Alfred Sjödin.

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