In the mid-1790s, when the «Jacobin panic » reached its climax in Britain, even poetry was used as a vehicle for political propaganda. Which rhetoric could prove more appropriate to conservative poets than Alexander Pope’s famous variations on «Whatever is, is right ! » ? In this article, I show how Hannah More’s counter-revolutionary ballads for the Cheap Repository Tracts (1795-98) turned Pope’s Essay on Man (1733-34) into suitable material for lower-class moralizing. I also discuss satirical poetry from The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner (1797-98) which derided Jacobin philosophers as «would-be Popian essayists » .Au milieu des années 1790, au moment où la peur de contagion révolutionnaire atteint des sommets en Grande-Bretagne, certai...
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This paper traces the use of satire as a literary form in England from the Renaissance to the Enligh...
Jerome McGann observes that 'DECEPTIVE apparitions haunt romantic writing'. This thesis investigate...
Many new publications flourished in the eighteenth century as a result of better reading abilities a...
In the mid-1790s, when the «Jacobin panic » reached its climax in Britain, even poetry was used as a...
This thesis contextualises the treatment of women in Alexander Pope's Epistle to a Lady (1743) again...
Cet article s’intéresse à deux parodies de poésie didactique publiées dans l’Anti-Jacobin au cours d...
Cet article aborde les concepts de la mesure et de l’excès par le prisme du terme “modest”. Considér...
This article is a diplomatic edition and translation of a 1741 French manuscript essay by the Huguen...
The antiphilosophical battle in eighteenth-century Liège. Charles-Louis Richard or the involuntary p...
The article studies the way in which the French ultra-royalist press at the time of the Restoration ...
Gilles Duval : Hannah More, the Revolution and popular literature. From 1795 onwards, Hannah More a...
Cet article examine un ensemble particulier de réactions polémiques à l’assassinat du roi Charles Ie...
International audienceThis article deals with the issue of the antiphilosophique education of reader...
Enjoyment of Pope's satiric poetry is still hampered by two things: the idea that all satire, and Po...
Jacques Mallet Du Pan’s essay ‘Du Degré d’influence qu’a eu la philosophie française sur la Révoluti...
This paper traces the use of satire as a literary form in England from the Renaissance to the Enligh...
Jerome McGann observes that 'DECEPTIVE apparitions haunt romantic writing'. This thesis investigate...
Many new publications flourished in the eighteenth century as a result of better reading abilities a...