Susan Manning

Poetics of Character

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of literary character in a comparative context, offering a wide-ranging approach to transatlantic literature in history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781107498020
• ISBN-10: 1107498023
• Artikelnr.: 41645697

Autorenporträt

Susan Manning (1953-2013) was Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director for the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She published many books, book chapters and journal articles, including most recently Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660-1830 (edited with Eve Tavor Bannet, Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Character, Self and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment (edited with Thomas Ahnert, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I. Transatlantic Literary History and the Poetics of Character: 1. 'Is analogy argument?'
Part II. Reading Character in Comparison: 2. Transatlantic contagion and the seductions of allegory
3. Characterless women
4. Characters and representatives
5. Literary friendship and transatlantic correspondences
6. Subjects and objects: 'always joined, never settled'
7. Historical characters: virtue ethics and the limits of romantic biography
8. Poetics of character.