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Black, Christina Susanna.

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Wits, Shits, and Crits: The Problem of Digestive Interpretation in Pope, Swift, and Fielding.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wits, Shits, and Crits: The Problem of Digestive Interpretation in Pope, Swift, and Fielding./
Author:	Black, Christina Susanna.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	242 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-03A.
Subject:	Art criticism. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10929262
ISBN:	9780438345225

Wits, Shits, and Crits: The Problem of Digestive Interpretation in Pope, Swift, and Fielding.
Black, Christina Susanna.

Wits, Shits, and Crits: The Problem of Digestive Interpretation in Pope, Swift, and Fielding. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 242 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

My readings of the abundant ingestion and excretion themes in literary works by Fielding, Swift, Montagu, and Pope propose that we can understand these topics as sustained metaphors for the bipartite issues of readers' consumption and writers' incorporation of a literary heritage into these texts. These issues were particularly salient in early eighteenth-century Britain, as printed texts become more broadly available and affordable, and readers could no longer be relied upon to have a top education and sophisticated tools of analysis. Authors like Fielding and Swift also were experimenting in new forms like the novel that had no standards for analysis. These authors were interested in and concerned about how their work and that of their contemporaries would stand up to future scrutiny. How did the changing economic incentives for writing, from courting wealthy patrons to selling in mass volume to unknown readers, affect literature's claim to everlasting value? Pope was the first English author to earn a sustainable living from his writings, but that new economic viability also spawned Grub Street hack writing, not to mention unsavory publishing practices. In this historical context, sustained metaphors of eating and digesting were a playfully denigrating way for these writers to investigate what it meant to write for consumers, even as the metaphors also revivified older literary traditions and genres by incorporating them into modern contexts. The coda includes interpretations of contemporary fecal art pieces "Cloaca" by Wim Delvoye and "Vorm-Fellows-Attitude" by artist collective Gelatin.

ISBN: 9780438345225Subjects--Topical Terms:

526357
Art criticism.

Wits, Shits, and Crits: The Problem of Digestive Interpretation in Pope, Swift, and Fielding.
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