'Cope's engaging, eye-opening study of character in post-Waterloo Britain sheds valuable new light on the evolution of public perceptions of secular figures as citizens struggled to disentangle the fictional from the real and to reconcile the myth-making tendencies of cultural representation with their hunger for luminaries as "real people".' Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska Restructures and revitalises late Romantic literature as a movement fascinated with competing claims about the reality and knowability of character The idea of character that many of us still take for granted -…mehr
Jonas Cope is Assistant Professor of English California State University, Sacramento. He has authored several articles including Passive and Dynamic Sincerity in Mary Shelley's Falkner, (The Keats-Shelley Journal 63 (2014): 123-37) and The Mortal Immortal: Mary Shelley's 'Overreachers' Reconsidered (The Explicator 72, no. 2 (2014): 122-26). He is an article reviewer for the journal Pedagogy published by Duke University Press.
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Introduction 1. The Reform Era: An Ethological Age 2. From Person to Text: Character and the Problem of Representation 3. Representing Representation: Walter Scott and Charles Lamb 4. The Politics of Unity: Hazlitt and Character Revisited 5. 'The Loved Abortion of a Thing Designed': Hartley Coleridge and the Drive for Dissolution 6. 'A Series of Small Inconstancies': Letitia Landon and the Politics of Consistency 7. Character and Paranoia in Beddoes's Death's Jest-Book and Peacock's Crotchet Castle Afterward. Meta-characterisation: Dickens's Sketches by Boz and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.
Introduction 1. The Reform Era: An Ethological Age 2. From Person to Text: Character and the Problem of Representation 3. Representing Representation: Walter Scott and Charles Lamb 4. The Politics of Unity: Hazlitt and Character Revisited 5. 'The Loved Abortion of a Thing Designed': Hartley Coleridge and the Drive for Dissolution 6. 'A Series of Small Inconstancies': Letitia Landon and the Politics of Consistency 7. Character and Paranoia in Beddoes's Death's Jest-Book and Peacock's Crotchet Castle Afterward. Meta-characterisation: Dickens's Sketches by Boz and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.
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