Mock-Heroic From Butler To Cowper: An English Genre And Discourse (Studies in Early Modern English Literature)

Terry (English literature, U. of Sunderland, Britain) begins by recounting the rise of the mock-heroic form in 17th-century England, overviewing its main properties as understood by commentators of the time, and discussing its ambivalent relation to the epic and its rivalrous one to an alternative burlesque form. Then he focuses on a number of exam