Overview

This important series takes full account of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of key modern readings of major authors genres and critical approaches. Prefaced by a wide-ranging editorial introduction setting the readings in context and exploring the issues they raise, individual volumes in the series offer the student authoritative and stimulating guides to the best theoretically-informed critical work on subjects from Chaucer to the present. The essays in this volume have all been chosen by Cynthia Chase and are considered to exemplify the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and ""New Historicist"" writing - the most important strands in contemporary critical throught on Romantic literature. The collection, with its substantial introduction and grouping of essays, explains the significance of current critical debate by relating its to fundamental critical questions that define romanticism. The book features a wide range of material and detailed headnotes which make this essential reading. It includes contributions from critics such as Paul de Man, Many Jacobus, Marjorie Levinson and Jerome Christensen and offers answers to perhaps the most essential question posed by the Romantic period - what is the role of language in history? The book is aimed at undergraduates.

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Author:   Cynthia Chase
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Longman
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780582047990

ISBN 10:   0582047994
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   01 February 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Romanticism and Anti-Self Consciousness, Geoffrey Hartmand 2. Time and History in Wordsworth, Paul de Man 3. The Notion of Blockage in the Literature of the Sublime, Neil Hertz 4. Past Recognition - Narrative Origins in Freud and Wordsworth, Cathy Caruth 5. Splitting the Race of Men in Twain - Prostitution, Personification, and ""The Prelude"", Mary Jacobus 6. Literary Gentlemen and Lovely Ladies - The debate on the character of ""Christabel"",Karen Swann 7. Bearing Demons - ""Frankenstein"" and the Circumvention of Maternity, Margaret Homans 8. Introduction to Keats's ""Life of Allegory"", Marjorie Levinson 9. Byron's ""Sardanapalus"" and the Triumph of Liberalism, Jerome Christensen 10. Unbinding Words - ""Prometheus Unbound"", Carol Jacobs Notes on Authors Further Reading Index"

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Cynthia Chase teaches courses in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell Unviersity, USA.

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