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Feigned Commonwealths
Hugh Jenkins
其他書名
The Country-house Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community
出版Duquesne University Press, 1998
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / PoetryLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / PoliticsPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN08207029279780820702926
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EgpaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this work, Hugh Jenkins seeks to retrieve from early modern texts a utopian vision of community - and cites Karl Marx, Christopher Hill and Raymond Williams as explanatory authorities. He argues that however congealed or residual the ideology of communality and charitable festivity may seem in the work of Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvel, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Finch, one would be short-sighted not to recognize in their efforts the value of their feigning, at least, some sense of ideal community. Jenkins advises readers to consider these country-house poems, along with Milton's Comus and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, as documents of the exploitation of labour - barbarism - and of the magical resolution of social conflict - utopian desire.