Romanticism and the Contingent Self : The Challenge of Representation
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| Autore: |
Falk Michael
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| Titolo: |
Romanticism and the Contingent Self : The Challenge of Representation
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| ©2024 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809.9145 |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Strange Multiplicities -- 1.1 Forms of Self and Forms of Writing -- 1.2 Romanticism and the Necessary Self -- 1.3 Frankenstein's Contingent Selves -- 1.3.1 Subjective and Objective Selfhood: 'I' and 'Me' -- 1.3.2 Three Conditioning Forces: Sensation, Passion, the Will -- 1.3.3 The Challenge of Representation: Multiplicity and Monstrosity -- References -- Chapter 2: Philosophy: Eighteenth-Century Theories of Contingent Selfhood -- 2.1 Sensation: John Locke and Mary Astell -- 2.2 Passion: David Hume and Adam Smith -- 2.3 The Will: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant -- 2.4 Three Romantic Thinkers -- References -- Chapter 3: Fiction: Growing Down in Edgeworth and Opie's Novels -- 3.1 Character: Unnecessary Beings -- 3.2 Plot: Attachments vs. Connections -- 3.3 Language: Subjective and Objective Anamorphosis -- References -- Chapter 4: Lyric: Self-Abnegation in the Sonnets of Clare and Smith -- 4.1 Genre: Self and the Sonnet -- 4.2 Narrative Mode: Sequencing and Paratexts -- 4.3 Lyrical Mode I: Person-Deixis -- 4.4 Lyrical Mode II: Place-Deixis -- References -- Chapter 5: Drama: Inner Seas in the Tragedies of Baillie and Harpur -- 5.1 Theory: Kinds of Romantic Tragedy -- 5.2 Setting: Psychic and Social Worlds -- 5.3 Imagery: The Metaphysic of Passion -- References -- Chapter 6: Prose: Moore's Multiform Byron -- 6.1 Style: The Prose of 'Character' and 'Genius' -- 6.2 Plot: Ordered and Disordered Lives -- 6.3 Autobiography: Moore Through a Glass, Darkly -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- References -- Appendices -- Online Repository -- Romantic Novel Corpus -- Moore's Byron -- References -- Index. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Romanticism and the Contingent Self |
| ISBN: | 3-031-49959-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910864180503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Series