The Genius of Parody

Imitation and Originality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century English Literature

R. Mack

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9781349284153, 9780230008564
• eBook ISBN: 9780230286511
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

Recent theoretical approaches have compelled critics to rethink many received notions regarding the significance of contemporary parodic activity. This study places parody firmly (if paradoxically) where it belongs: at the centre of the literary-creative process in the literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 ‘We Cannot Think of What Hath Not Been Thought’: Or, How Critics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Literary Paordy
• 3 Parody as Plague: Ben Jonson and the Early Anxieties of Parodic Destabilization
• 4 Minding True Things by Mock’ries: The Henry V Chorus and the Question of Shakespearean Parody
• 5 John Dryden and Homeopathic Parody in the Early Augustan Battleground
• 6 Parodying Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard: Richard OwenCambridge’s An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room
• 7 Parody, Autobiography, and the Novel: A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke and The History of Henry Dumont, Esq., and Miss Charlotte Evelyn
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index