The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism, 1820 - 1839

ISBN-13: 9781474454827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Jonas Cope

Spis treści

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’s Death’s Jest-Book and Peacock’s Crotchet Castle ; Afterward. Meta-characterisation: Dickens’s Sketches by Boz and Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus. ?