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J. DOUGLAS CANFIELD. The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 252 pp. ISBN 0-87413-834-5.
The late Douglas Canfield contributed extensively to the theoretical canon for Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, mentored students and new teachers entering the field, and served important roles in the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and other professional societies. His research extended from Restoration drama to literature of the Southwest Borderlands, and his enthusiasm for teaching never waned. Professor Canfield's last publication, The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature, leaves our profession a final instance of his art of critical inquiry.
In this comprehensive study, Canfield argues that remnants of the baroque persist in literature even as literature becomes more neoclassical and that this baroque "extravagance" often disrupts the new impulse toward restraint and the rational. His thorough attention to genres and genders of the period makes this study...
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