Neoclassicism: An Overview

Neoclassical Style

• Neoclassical Wit
• Augustan Poetic Diction
• Conversation in Art and Life
• The Heroic or Neoclassical Couplet
  • Heroic Couplet: A Brief Introduction
  • The Rhetorical Organization of the Neoclassical Couplet

Neoclassical Genres and Modes

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

The Arts

• Eighteenth-Century Architecture
• The Sister Arts -- Literature and Painting as Similar

After the Augustans

• The Sublime

Incorporated in the Victorian Web July 2000