George Crabbe: A ReappraisalThe second section of the book reopens the discussion of Crabbe's work from a set of slightly altered perspectives. Thus one chapter is concerned with the work of the first generation of Romantic poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey) and suggests that some of the energy and tension of Crabbe's mature poetry comes from his readiness to expose himself, sensitively yet not uncritically, to the new currents of feeling that were stirring in England around the turn of the century. Other chapters deal with the question of genre, with the claim that Crabbe's determinate meanings (often thought to be peculiarly translucent) can be reduced to indeterminacy by a deconstructive approach, and with the extent to which "ideology" governed his social and political outlook. A concluding chapter takes as its perspective the attempt to set Crabbe's total oeuvre in the context of what we know about his life and personality. |
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Contents
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The Last Augustan? | 15 |
Traditional Influences | 27 |
Immediate Precursors | 36 |
The Tale in Embryo | 47 |
Further Narrative Development | 67 |
Tales 1812 | 89 |
Tales of the Hall | 119 |
Crabbe and Genre | 156 |
Crabbe Realism | 163 |
Crabbe and Indeterminacy | 179 |
Crabbe and Ideology | 188 |
Biographical Speculations | 209 |
Afterword | 219 |
Select Bibliography | 236 |
Crabbes VerseTales and Romanticism | 135 |
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Romanticism: An Anthology: with CD-ROM, Second Edition Duncan Wu,David S. Miall No preview available - 2000 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | George Crabbe: A Reappraisal |
| Author | Frank S. Whitehead |
| Publisher | Susquehanna University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0945636709, 9780945636700 |
| Length | 243 pages |
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