Joel Porte

In Respect to Egotism

Studies in American Romantic Writing
Herausgeber: Gelpi, Albert; Posnock, Ross

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1991 book examines nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9780521362733
• ISBN-10: 0521362733
• Artikelnr.: 35455450

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing, reading, Romanticism
1. 'Where...Is this singular career to terminate?': Bewildered pilgrims in early American fiction
2. 'Where there is no vision, the people perish...': Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World
3. Poe: Romantic centre, critical margin
4. Emerson: experiments in self-creation
5. Hawthorne: 'The obscurest man of letters in America'
6. Thoreau's self-perpetuating artefacts
7. Melville: Romantic cock-and-bull
or, the great art of telling the truth
8. Douglass and Stowe: scriptures of the redeemed self
9. Whitman: 'Take me as I am or not at all...'
Interchapter: Walt and Emily
10. Dickinson's 'Celestial vail': snowbound in self-consciousness
Notes
Index.