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1 online resource (viii, 199 pages) |
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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 |
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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. Drawing on recent theories of accommodation and estrangement, Peter Melville argues that the texts of Romantic hospitality (including those of Rousseau, Kant, Coleridge, and Mary Shelley) are often troubled by the subject's failure to welcome the Other without also exposing the stranger to some form of hostility or violence |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 fast |
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 fast |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast |
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 fast |
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Kant, Immanuel. swd |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. swd |
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. swd |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. swd |
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Hospitality in literature.
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Strangers in literature.
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Noncitizens in literature.
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Romanticism.
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romanticism (form of expression)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Noncitizens in literature
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Hospitality in literature
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Romanticism
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Strangers in literature
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Fremder Motiv
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Romantik
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Literatur
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Gastfreundschaft Motiv
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781554581146 |
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1554581141 |
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9786610908035 |
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6610908036 |
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