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Rochester and the Pursuit of Pleasure

Rochester and the Pursuit of Pleasure - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Larry D. CarverPublish date:2024-06-25Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526173676ISBN-10:1526173670UPC:9781526173676Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, Modern, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:16th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCYS6NCBHR
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. In doing so, it sheds light on a central vexed issue in Rochester criticism, the relationship of the poet to his speaker. It also reveals that Rochester's work clusters about a central theme, the pursuit of pleasure, a pursuit motivated by a courtship of purity that grew out of Rochester's Christian and God-fearing upbringing. This rhetoric of courtship, in turn, reveals the unity of Rochester's work as the courtier and his various personae try to persuade his audiences, secular and divine, of his worth.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526173676ISBN-10:1526173670UPC:9781526173676Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, Modern, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:16th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCYS6NCBHR
Larry Carver is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
Publisher: Manchester University Press

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