Selected studies in Romantic and American literature, history, and culture: inventions and interventions
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Main Author: Rzepka, Charles J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate ©2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Foreword : The critic as investigator -- pt. 1. Women and men -- "If I can make it there" : Oz's Emerald City and the new woman -- Christabel's "wandering mother" and the discourse of the self : a Lacanian reading of repressed narration -- The ape and the aristocrat -- Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of Lyrical ballads : sentimentalism, straw men, and misprision -- pt. 2. Thomas De Quincey's violent stages -- Bang-up! Theatricality and the "diphrelatic art" in De Quincey's English mail-coach -- Thomas De Quincey's "Three-fingered Jack" : the West Indian origins of the "Dark interpreter" -- The "dark problem" of Greek trajedy : sublimated violence in De Quincey -- pt. 3. Gifts and powers -- A gift that complicates employ : poetry and poverty in "Resolution and independence" -- The literature of power and the imperial will : De Quincey's opium-war essays -- Wordsworth between God and mammon : the early "spots of time" and the sublime as sacramental commodity -- pt. 4. Sites and regions -- Detection as method : reconstructing the past in Godwin and Freud -- Sacrificial sites, place-keeping, and "pre-history" in Wordsworth's "Michael" -- Race, region, rule : genre and the case of Charlie Chan -- pt. 5. All in your head -- Pictures of the mind : iron and charcoal, "ouzy" tides and "vagrant dwellers" at Tintern, 1798 -- "Cortez -- or Balboa, or somebody like that" : form, fact, and forgetting in Keat's "Chapman's Homer" sonnet
Physical Description:xiv, 287 pages
ISBN:9780754695448
0754695441
9780754668718
0754668711

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