Poetics of character : transatlantic encounters, 1700-1900 / / Susan Manning [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Manning Susan <1953-2013, >
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/384
• Soggetto topico: Romanticism; Character in literature; English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism; American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism; American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Comparative literature - English and American; Comparative literature - American and English
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Poetics of character
• ISBN: 1-107-70314-X; 1-139-89355-6; 1-107-49802-3; 1-107-69288-1; 1-107-32635-4; 1-107-59865-6; 1-107-70396-4; 1-107-66974-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828297003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; ; 102.