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



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Autore: Melville Peter <1973-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Romantic hospitality and the resistance to accommodation [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Melville Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
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ISBN: 1-280-90803-3
9786610908035
1-55458-114-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910154703503321
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