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Lord Rochester in the restoration world
\"John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), the notorious and brilliant libertine poet of King Charles II's court, has long been considered an embodiment of the Restoration era. This interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading scholars focuses new attention on, and brings fresh perspectives to, the writings of Lord Rochester. Particular consideration is given to the political force and social identity of Rochester's work, to the worlds - courtly and theatrical, urban and suburban - from which Rochester's poetry emerged and which it discloses, and not least to the unsettling aesthetic power of Rochester's writing. The singularity of Rochester's voice - his 'matchless wit' - has been widely recognised; this book encourages the continued appreciation of all the ways in which Rochester reveals the layered and promiscuous character of literary projects throughout the whole of a brilliant, abrasive, and miscellaneous age\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Clothes make the ape: the satirical animal in Rochester's poetry
Gill, for instance, writes that 'most simply, theriophily is the belief that animal life provides man with an exemplary pattern of conduct.'7 Erica Fudge, in contrast, has identified a radical and sceptical version of theriophily that 'undercut[s] human dominion' and removes the human from its privileged place in the order of things.8 In Fudge's account of theriophily, the animal is not a moral example because theriophily fundamentally challenges the validity of man's perspective on animal life by asking, in a spirit of scepticism, what gives man the right and ability to pronounce with truth on the experience of another.9 The previously well-defined limits of theriophily, and especially its potential to escape from anthropocentric accounts of the human-animal relationship, have become, then, subject to debate. Because the poet speaks from the position of the man he already is, however, this position seems to be foreclosed. Shannon claims that the result, in Shakespeare's tragedy, is the bleak image of man as 'a solitary unhappy beast.'20 While Shakespeare's tragic vision removes man from society in order to demonstrate his 'unaccommodated' nature, Rochester's satirical method, addressing man at his most social, uses the figure of the ape or monkey to 'look askance' at man, while simultaneously refusing man a normative viewpoint on himself. Clothed and Chattering: Monkeys and Jackanapes In two of Rochester's most significant pieces of social satire, 'Tunbridge Wells' and 'A Letter from Artemiza in the Towne to Chloe in the Countrey', it is the ape who embodies the figure of the satirist. Because his satire is no more than pure imitation, however, the ape shows that the satirist is riveted to his own subject.
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Poetry, Polyvocal, Philosophy: A Thought Experiment
This essay explores the polyvocality between poetry and philosophy. Using an Aristotelian (and Peircean) approach, the author examines how linguistic forms like negation, the \"actual,\" and the \"virtual\" inform the polyvocal. Central is the claim that the polyvocal is prior to poetry and philosophy in time, account, and knowledge.
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Earl of Rochester : the critical heritage
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
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Card and courtship plays at Hampton Court Palace: The Rape of the Lock and the Origins of Game Theory a response to Sean R. Silver
Once we have unpicked this single tour, and close reading is always hard work, we can put this first mock-battle back into context - court belles and their beaux socialising at Hampton Court Palace near the end of Queen Anne's reign - and then see whether the card game tells us anything new about the players and whether this knowledge shapes our appreciation of Pope's verse satire, and hence the relevance of a Game Theory approach to Literature. Simon Fraser University British Columbia, Canada For the original article as well as all contributions to this debate, please check the Connotations website at . *Reference: Oliver R. Baker \"Pope's Ombre Enigmas in The Rape of the Lock,\" Connotations 17.2-3 (2007/2008): 210-37; Sean R. Silver \"The Rape of the Lock and the Origins of Game Theory/' Connotations 19.1-3 (2009/2010): 203-228. [...]many earlier reconstructors' assumptions of more than one tour and a suppressed round of discards in this tour masked a number of playing alternatives that Pope's contemporary audiences might have appreciated. 2 Throughout this paper I have deliberately used terms in common, albeit informal usage which have their roots in gambling.
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\Go, Get Your Husband Put into Commission\: Fielding's Tom Thumb Plays and the Labor of Little Men
Armintor examines Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb plays and the Labor of Little Men. Considering that Fielding's fantastical presentation of spousal intimacy was conceived at a time marked by a dramatic rise in female consumption of the economic variety, the plays' central dirty joke reveals itself to be a socioeconomically relevant as its bawdy.
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