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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816328003321

Autore

Melville Peter <1973->

Titolo

Romantic hospitality and the resistance to accommodation [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Melville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-90803-3

9786610908035

1-55458-114-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Disciplina

820.935309034

Soggetti

Hospitality in literature

Strangers in literature

Noncitizens in literature

Romanticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 UNSETTLING ROUSSEAU: Hospitality in Emile and Discourse on Inequality; 2 THE RIGHTS OF THE STRANGER: Kant's "Bond of Hospitality"; 3 COLERIDGE AND THE POETICS OF HOSPITABLE FAILURE; 4 HOSPITALITY WITHOUT END: "Visitation" and Obligation in Mary Shelley's: The Last Man; CONCLUSION: ROMANTIC HOSPITALITY TO COME; WORKS CITED; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

What does hospitality have to do with Romanticism? What are the conditions of a Romantic welcome? Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation traces the curious passage of strangers through representative texts of English Romanticism, while also considering some European philosophical ""pre-texts"" of this tradition. From Rousseau's invocation of the cot-less Carib to Coleridge's reception of his Porlockian caller, Romanticisms encounters with the ""strange"" remind us that the hospitable relation between subject and Other is invariably fraught with problems.    Dra