This book examines the emergence of a new genre during the 18th century : the nostalgia poem. Poems ranging from Dryden's Hastings elegy to Crabbe's The Village are reevaluated, showing how works as varied as Gray's Eton College Ode, Macpherson's forged epics, and Goldsmith's Th…
Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this text examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. The authors show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation strategies have driven innovations in…
Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood -- what constitutes a self -- have changed over time, so too have ideas about ho…
Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood -- what constitutes a self -- have changed over time, so too have ideas about ho…
Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this text examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. The authors show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation strategies have driven innovations in…