Poetics of Character : Transatlantic Encounters 1700-1900.
A study of literary character in a comparative context, offering a wide-ranging approach to transatlantic literature in history.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Editorial Note; Part I Transatlantic literary history and the poetics of character; Chapter 1 'But is analogy argument?'; I: Transatlantic; II: History and rhetoric; III: Character and correspondence; IV: Literary history and nation; V: Character, rhetoric and identity; VI: Society and custom; VII: Writing character; VIII: Probability and originality; IX: Performances and personations; X: Tropes; XI: National characters; XII: Types and erasures; Part II Reading character in comparison.
- IIIIV; V; Coda; Notes; Prologue; 1 'But is analogy argument?'; 2 Transatlantic contagion and the seductions of allegory; 3 'Choice of flowers'; 4 Characters and representatives; 5 Literary friendship and transatlantic correspondences; 6 Subjects and objects; 7 Historical characters; 8 Poetics of character; Bibliography; Index.