Cynthia Chase

Romanticism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume represent the best of recent critical writing on Romantic literature, and include contributions from critics such as Paul de Man, Mary Jacobus, Marjorie Levinson and Jerome Christensen. Through the course of their analyses they offer answers to perhaps the most essential question posed by the Romantic period: what is the role of language in history?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317900085
• Artikelnr.: 41785551

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Chase teaches courses in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell Unviersity, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Romanticism and Anti-Self Consciousness
Geoffrey Hartmand 2. Time and History in Wordsworth
Paul de Man 3. The Notion of Blockage in the Literature of the Sublime
Neil Hertz 4. Past Recognition - Narrative Origins in Freud and Wordsworth
Cathy Caruth 5. Splitting the Race of Men in Twain - Prostitution
Personification
and "The Prelude"
Mary Jacobus 6. Literary Gentlemen and Lovely Ladies - The debate on the character of "Christabel"
Karen Swann 7. Bearing Demons - "Frankenstein" and the Circumvention of Maternity
Margaret Homans 8. Introduction to Keats's "Life of Allegory"
Marjorie Levinson 9. Byron's "Sardanapalus" and the Triumph of Liberalism
Jerome Christensen 10. Unbinding Words - "Prometheus Unbound"
Carol Jacobs Notes on Authors Further Reading Index