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William Cowper

Religion, Satire, Society

Conrad Brunström author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bucknell University Press

Published:1st Mar '04

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This book re-examines the literary significance of poet and translator William Cowper (1731-1800). Too often, Cowper is pigeonholed as an eccentric, a hopeless depressive, or even as a religious lunatic. Often regarded as an 'early' Romantic, Cowper is reconsidered in this book in light of a rich eighteenth-century political and religious culture. Rather than read him as an old-fashioned Calvinist stranded in an increasingly secularized society, Cowper can be read as someone who well understood the increasingly imprecise and emotionalist quality of eighteenth-century religious discourse and who expressed this dominant tendency with uncanny insight.

ISBN: 9781611481914

Dimensions: 243mm x 168mm x 17mm

Weight: 483g

207 pages