LEADER 04665nam 22008292 450 001 9910453257303321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-70314-X 010 $a1-139-89355-6 010 $a1-107-49802-3 010 $a1-107-69288-1 010 $a1-107-32635-4 010 $a1-107-59865-6 010 $a1-107-70396-4 010 $a1-107-66974-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000001171965 035 $a(EBL)1543698 035 $a(OCoLC)865330732 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001060173 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12437779 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060173 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086204 035 $a(PQKB)10968160 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781107326354 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1543698 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1543698 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10812158 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL552477 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001171965 100 $a20130130d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPoetics of character $etransatlantic encounters, 1700-1900 /$fSusan Manning$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v102 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-04240-2 311 $a1-306-21226-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue -- 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. 330 $aThis study of character in a comparative context presents a new approach to transatlantic literary history. Rereading Romanticism across national, generic and chronological boundaries, and through close textual comparisons, it offers exciting possibilities for rediscovering how literature engages and persuades readers of the reality of character. Historically grounded in the eighteenth-century philosophical, political and cultural conditions that generated nation-based literary history, it reveals alternative narratives to those of origin and succession, influence and reception. It also reintroduces rhetoric and poetics as ways of addressing questions about uniqueness and representativeness in character creation, epistemological issues of identity and impersonation, and the generation of literary value. Drawing comparisons between works from Alexander Pope and Cotton Mather through Robert Burns, Jane Austen, John Keats, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, R. W. Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Herman Melville, to George Eliot and Henry James, Susan Manning reveals surprising metaphorical, metonymic and performative connections. 410 0$aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v102. 606 $aRomanticism 606 $aCharacter in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y1783-1850$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and American 606 $aComparative literature$xAmerican and English 615 0$aRomanticism. 615 0$aCharacter in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature$xEnglish and American. 615 0$aComparative literature$xAmerican and English. 676 $a820.9/384 700 $aManning$b Susan$f1953-2013,$01043169 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453257303321 996 $aPoetics of character$92467961 997 $aUNINA