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The genius of parody [electronic resource] : imitation and originality in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature /

by Mack, Robert L; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: vi, 285 p.ISBN: ; ; .Subject(s): Parody in literature | English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Parody | Originality in literature | Imitation in literature | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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