William Cowper

Religion, Satire, Society

von Conrad Brunström

207 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book re-examines the literary significance of poet and translator William Cowper (1731-1800). Too often, Cowper is pigeonholed as an eccentric, a hopeless depressive, or even as a religious lunatic. Often regarded as an 'early' Romantic, Cowper is reconsidered in this book in light of a rich eighteenth-century political and religious culture. Rather than read him as an old-fashioned Calvinist stranded in an increasingly secularized society, Cowper can be read as someone who well understood the increasingly imprecise and emotionalist quality of eighteenth-century religious discourse and who expressed this dominant tendency with uncanny insight.

• Reihe: Bucknell University Press
• ISBN: 9781611481914
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2004
• Größe: 243 x 168 mm
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc