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Poetics of Character : Transatlantic Encounters 1700-1900.

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manning, Susan, 1953-2013
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Editorial Note; Part I Transatlantic literary history and the poetics of character; Chapter 1 'But is analogy argument?'; I: Transatlantic; II: History and rhetoric; III: Character and correspondence; IV: Literary history and nation; V: Character, rhetoric and identity; VI: Society and custom; VII: Writing character; VIII: Probability and originality; IX: Performances and personations; X: Tropes; XI: National characters; XII: Types and erasures; Part II Reading character in comparison.
  • IIIIV; V; Coda; Notes; Prologue; 1 'But is analogy argument?'; 2 Transatlantic contagion and the seductions of allegory; 3 'Choice of flowers'; 4 Characters and representatives; 5 Literary friendship and transatlantic correspondences; 6 Subjects and objects; 7 Historical characters; 8 Poetics of character; Bibliography; Index.