| Description |
xiii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in romanticism ; 20 |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 21
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| Contents |
Introduction - From coins to hearts: Romantic forms of subjectivity -- 1. Doll-machines and butcher-shop meat: models of childbirth in the early stages of industrial capitalism -- 2. "An embarrassing subject": use value and exchange value in early gothic characterization -- 3. From "race" to "place" in "The Prisoner of Chillon" -- 4. Incarnate imagination and The Cenci -- 5. Centrality and circulation in The Heart of Mid-Lothian |
| Summary |
On of the defining features of Romantic writing, critics have long argued, is its characterization of the self in terms of psychological depth. Many Romantic writers, however, did not conceive of the self in this way, and in Romantic Identities Andrea K. Henderson investigates that part of Romantic writing that challenges the "depth" model, or operates outside its domain. Henderson explores various forms of Romantic discourse, explains their economic and social contexts, and examines their differing conceptions of identity. Individual chapters treat the Romantic view of the self in embryo and at birth, the relation of gothic characterization to the ghostliness of exchange value, anti-essentialism in Romantic physiology, the conception of self as genre in writings by Percy and Mary Shelley, and the link between economic circulation and the distrust of psychological interiority in Scott |
| Analysis |
English literature Romanticism |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p185-193. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index |
| Subject |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Prisoner of Chillon
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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Heart of Midlothian.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Cenci.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Self in literature.
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Subjectivity in literature.
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| LC no. |
95023333 |
| ISBN |
0521481643 |
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