Mack, Robert L.

The genius of parody imitation and originality in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature / [electronic resource] : Robert L. Mack. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - vi, 285 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-273) and index.

Introduction -- 'We cannot think of what hath not been thought' : or, How critics learned to stop worrying and love literary parody -- Parody as plague : Ben Jonson and the early anxieties of parodic destabilization -- Minding true things by mock'ries : the Henry V chorus and the question of Shakespearean parody -- John Dryden and homeopathic parody in the early Augustan battleground -- Parodying Pope's Eloisa to Abelard : Richard Owen Cambridge's An elegy written in an empty assembly room -- Parody, autobiography, and the novel : a narrative of the life of Mrs Charlotte Charke and The history of Henry Dumont, Esq., and Miss Charlotte Evelyn.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Parody in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Parody.
Originality in literature.
Imitation in literature.


Electronic books.

PR438.P37 / M33 2007

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