Presenting the past : philosophical irony and the rhetoric of double vision from Bishop Butler to T.S. Eliot / Robert James Merrett

Author: Merrett, Robert James
Published: Victoria, B.C. : English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 2004.
Physical Description: 198 pages ; 23 cm.

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Series

ELS monograph series ; no. 91.

Contents

Human nature's "inward frame" : the moral psychology of Bishop Joseph Butler -- Rhetorical irony and humanist myth in Alexander Pope's The dunciad -- Jane Austen and the "better knowledge of mankind" -- The literary past and humanist futures : Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, and George Eliot, addressing and figuring children -- Rhetoric and mythopoesis in T.S. Eliot's Four quartets.

Subject(s)

English literature—History and criticism
Discourse analysis, Literary
Irony in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)

ISBN

0920604897

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references.

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