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

• Autore: Melville Peter <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.935309034
• Soggetto topico: Hospitality in literature; Strangers in literature; Noncitizens in literature; Romanticism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Romantic hospitality and the resistance to accommodation
• ISBN: 1-280-90803-3; 9786610908035; 1-55458-114-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782717503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II