LEADER 04188nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910786352403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-83366-2 010 $a0-226-92236-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226922362 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276645 035 $a(EBL)1061195 035 $a(OCoLC)819816691 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756824 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12351505 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756824 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10753633 035 $a(PQKB)11721102 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099496 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1061195 035 $a(DE-B1597)524278 035 $a(OCoLC)820172862 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226922362 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1061195 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623027 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL414616 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276645 100 $a20120510d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRomanticism and the question of the stranger$b[electronic resource] /$fDavid Simpson 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-92235-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAfter 9/11: the ubiquity of others -- Theorizing strangers: a very long romanticism -- Hearth and home: Coleridge, De Quincey, Austen -- Friends and enemies in Walter Scott's crusader novels -- Small print and wide horizons -- Strange words: the call to translation -- Hands across the ocean: slavery and sociability -- Strange women. 330 $aIn our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger-the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor-carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are "different" has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. In Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger, David Simpson locates the figure of the stranger and the rhetoric of strangeness in romanticism and places them in a tradition that extends from antiquity to today. Simpson shows that debates about strangers loomed large in the French Republic of the 1790s, resulting in heated discourse that weighed who was to be welcomed and who was to be proscribed as dangerous. Placing this debate in the context of classical, biblical, and other later writings, he identifies a persistent difficulty in controlling the play between the despised and the desired. He examines the stranger as found in the works of Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and Southey, as well as in depictions of the betrayals of hospitality in the literature of slavery and exploration-as in Mungo Park's Travels and Stedman's Narrative-and portrayals of strange women in de Staël, Rousseau, and Burney. Contributing to a rich strain of thinking about the stranger that includes interventions by Ricoeur and Derrida, Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger reveals the complex history of encounters with alien figures and our continued struggles with romantic concerns about the unknown. 606 $aRomanticism 606 $aOther (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 610 $aromanticism, romantics, stranger, unknown, foreigner, foreign, enemy, visitor, difference, different, strangeness, narrative, tradition, danger, dangerous, classical, bible, biblical, philosophy, literature, literary, criticism, walter scott, slavery, gender, sociability, jane austen, samuel taylor coleridge, robert southey, sublime, imagination, nature, melancholy, subjectivity. 615 0$aRomanticism. 615 0$aOther (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/145 686 $aHL 1101$qBVB$2rvk 700 $aSimpson$b David$f1951-$01569985 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786352403321 996 $aRomanticism and the question of the stranger$93843322 997 $aUNINA