Feigned commonwealths : the country-house poem and the fashioning of the ideal community
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Feigned commonwealths : the country-house poem and the fashioning of the ideal community
（Medieval and Renaissance literary studies）
Duquesne University Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258) and index
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Description
This wide-ranging treatment of the country-house poem greatly expands the parameters of earlier discussions of the topic and is the first book-length study of the country-house poem in some twenty years. The author persuasively demonstrates that far from being a rather narrow and short-lived genre, the country-house poem was the locus of a whole series of important cultural mediations between city and country, private and public, drama and novel. Also included in this work is a wealth of material that has not previously been associated with the genre, notably Comus, The Country Wife, The Alchemist, and Robinson Crusoe.
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