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Fatal Autonomy : Romantic Drama and the Rhetoric of Agency /

'Fatal Autonomy is a subtle, gracefully written, and politically astute reading of selected plays by the canonical Romantic poets. Jewett offers the most original and carefully circumscribed formulations to date of the interaction between language and politics as it is depicted in Romantic dram...

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Autor principal: Jewett, William (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Tragic Agents And The Origins Of Romanticism, 1794-1797
  • 1. The Sublime Machine Of History: The Fall Of Robespierre And Wat Tyler
  • 2. The Claim Of Compulsion: The Borderers
  • 3. Fancy And The Spell Of Enlightenment: Osorio
  • Part Two. Shelley, Byron, And The Body Politic, 1819-1822
  • 4. Performing Skepticism: The Cenci
  • 5. Fatal Autonomy: Marino Faliero
  • 6. History's Lethean Song: Charles The First And The Triumph Of Life
  • Index