Neoclassicism: An Overview

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Neoclassicism

• An Introduction

Neoclassical Style

• Neoclassical Wit
• Augustan Poetic Diction
• Conversation in Art and Life
• The Heroic or Neoclassical Couplet
  • The Heroic Couplet: A Brief Introduction
  • The Rhetorical Organization of the Neoclassical Couplet
• Erasmus Darwin’s Poetry — the Steam Engine, Evolution, & Radical Politics

Neoclassical Genres and Modes — Satire

• Satire: An Introduction
• Narrators, Masks, and Speakers in Satire
• Hodgart on The Conditions of Political Satire
• Mock Epic

The Arts

• Eighteenth-Century Architecture
• Eighteenth-Century Neoclassical Buildings in Bath
• The Sister Arts — Literature and Painting as Similar

Political and Social History

• Prime Ministers
• The British Empire
• The Coffee House as a Center of Business — The Jamaica Coffee House in the City of London
• The Anti-Slavery Campaign in eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries

After the Augustans

• The Sublime

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