Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters 1700–1900

Author:   Susan Manning (University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   102
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Pages:   336
Publication Date:   20 November 2014
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Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters 1700–1900


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Author:   Susan Manning (University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   102
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9781107498020


ISBN 10:   1107498023
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   20 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

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.

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'Poetics of Character is a true masterpiece in Manning's areas of specialization - the literature and philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment, Romanticism, transatlanticism - and, if I may be allowed the type of language that [James] Chandler employs, it displays Manning's thinking at its most agile and acute. A gift to multiple fields and the capstone of an impressive and influential career, [it] opens multiple new channels of thought for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century transatlantic criticism, a fitting legacy for a scholar already seen as a trailblazer in the field.' Matthew Wickman, Review of English Studies


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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).

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