Exemplary England: Historical Inquiry and Literary Recompense in Pope, Gray, and Richardson

What meaning does the past hold for the present? History writing often prioritizes the ethos and actions...
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Author: Sarabeth Grant
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Exemplary England: Historical Inquiry and Literary Recompense in Pope, Gray, and Richardson by Grant, Sarabeth

Exemplary England: Historical Inquiry and Literary Recompense in Pope, Gray, and Richardson

$136.76

Exemplary England: Historical Inquiry and Literary Recompense in Pope, Gray, and Richardson

$136.76
Author: Sarabeth Grant
Format: Paperback
Language: English

What meaning does the past hold for the present? History writing often prioritizes the ethos and actions of the "great men" of the past, those connected to formal expressions of power, as models worthy of imitation. The problem with such exemplars is that they craft a limited view of national identity, drawn from political, economic, religious, and social institutional superstructures. Inherently exclusionary, narratives of exemplary men inadequately represent the complexities of a metropolitan and diverse society.

In Exemplary England, Sarabeth Grant explores three canonical texts of 1740s England that critique the class, geography, and gender assumptions of the exemplar model. Through original readings of Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, and Samuel Richardson, she locates practices of constituting history and registering national identity in eighteenth-century England beyond that tradition. Her book argues that these literary texts offer recompense for the national injustices endured by the disenfranchised, charting the development of inward historical consciousness as necessary to civic stability.



Author: Sarabeth Grant
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 03/08/2023
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780813949000

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