Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger /

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In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger-the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor-carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are "different" has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simpson, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Temas:
English literature > History and criticism.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Romanticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
romanticism, romantics, stranger, unknown, foreigner, foreign, enemy, visitor, difference, different, strangeness, narrative, tradition, danger, dangerous, classical, bible, biblical, philosophy, literature, literary, criticism, walter scott, slavery, gender, sociability, jane austen, samuel taylor coleridge, robert southey, sublime, imagination, nature, melancholy, subjectivity.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: After 9/11: The Ubiquity of Others
  • 1. Theorizing Strangers: A Very Long Romanticism
  • 2. Hearth and Home: Coleridge, De Quincey, Austen
  • 3. Friends and Enemies in Walter Scott's Crusader Novels
  • 4. Small Print and Wide Horizons
  • 5. Strange Words: The Call to Translation
  • 6. Hands across the Ocean: Slavery and Sociability
  • 7. Strange Women
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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