04665nam 22008292 450 991045325730332120151005020621.01-107-70314-X1-139-89355-61-107-49802-31-107-69288-11-107-32635-41-107-59865-61-107-70396-41-107-66974-X(CKB)2550000001171965(EBL)1543698(OCoLC)865330732(SSID)ssj0001060173(PQKBManifestationID)12437779(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060173(PQKBWorkID)11086204(PQKB)10968160(UkCbUP)CR9781107326354(MiAaPQ)EBC1543698(Au-PeEL)EBL1543698(CaPaEBR)ebr10812158(CaONFJC)MIL552477(EXLCZ)99255000000117196520130130d2013|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPoetics of character transatlantic encounters, 1700-1900 /Susan Manning[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2013.1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;102Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-04240-2 1-306-21226-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue -- Part I. Transatlantic Literary History and the Poetics of Character: 1. 'But is analogy argument?' -- Part II. Reading Character in Comparison -- 2. Transatlantic contagion and the seductions of allegory -- 3. 'Choice flowers' and characterless women -- 4. Characters and representatives: 'floating fragments of a wrecked renown' -- 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.This study of character in a comparative context presents a new approach to transatlantic literary history. Rereading Romanticism across national, generic and chronological boundaries, and through close textual comparisons, it offers exciting possibilities for rediscovering how literature engages and persuades readers of the reality of character. Historically grounded in the eighteenth-century philosophical, political and cultural conditions that generated nation-based literary history, it reveals alternative narratives to those of origin and succession, influence and reception. It also reintroduces rhetoric and poetics as ways of addressing questions about uniqueness and representativeness in character creation, epistemological issues of identity and impersonation, and the generation of literary value. Drawing comparisons between works from Alexander Pope and Cotton Mather through Robert Burns, Jane Austen, John Keats, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, R. W. Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Herman Melville, to George Eliot and Henry James, Susan Manning reveals surprising metaphorical, metonymic and performative connections.Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;102.RomanticismCharacter in literatureEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureColonial period, ca. 1600-1775History and criticismAmerican literature1783-1850History and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismComparative literatureEnglish and AmericanComparative literatureAmerican and EnglishRomanticism.Character in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureEnglish and American.Comparative literatureAmerican and English.820.9/384Manning Susan1953-2013,1043169UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910453257303321Poetics of character2467961UNINA