| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism |
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Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Reform Era: An Ethological Age -- 2. From Person to Text: Character and the Problem of Representation -- 3. Representing Representation: Walter Scott and Charles Lamb -- 4. The Politics of Unity: Hazlitt and Character Revisited -- 5. 'The Loved Abortion of a Thing Designed': Hartley Coleridge and the Drive for Dissolution -- 6. 'A Series of Small Inconstancies': Letitia Landon and the Politics of Consistency -- 7. Character and Paranoia in Beddoes' Death's Jest-Book and Peacock's Crotchet Castle -- Afterword: Meta-characterisation - Dickens' Sketches by Boz and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism studies texts written by contemporary poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, philosophers, phrenologists, sociologists, gossip-mongers and anonymous correspondents |
| Notes |
Revised thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012, titled: The dissolution of character in late romantic British literature, 1816-1837 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 31, 2018) |
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Romanticism -- Great Britain
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Character in literature.
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Self in literature.
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Philosophy in literature.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Character -- History -- 19th century
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Philosophy, British -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Self in literature
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Philosophy in literature
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Philosophy, British
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English literature
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Character
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Character in literature
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Romanticism
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474421317 |
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1474421318 |
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