| Description |
284 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Nine of the 11 essays are revisions of lectures originally delivered at a symposium held at Yale in 1970-71 under the auspices of the English Dept. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Vistas: Organic form: some questions about a metaphor / W.K. Wimsatt -- Reflections on romanticism in France / Geoffrey Hartman -- Happy prison: a recurring romantic metaphor / Victor Brombert -- 2. Instances: Theory of metaphor in Rousseau's Second discourse / Paul de Man -- Wordsworth in the present day / Frederick A. Pottle -- Coleridge as a metaphysical poet / Cleanth Brooks -- Emerson: the glory and the sorrows of American romanticism / Harold Bloom -- 3. Continuities: This must be the place: from Wordsworth to Proust / Roger Shattuck -- Melodramatic imagination: the example of Balzac and James / Peter Brooks -- Conrad's romanticism: self-consciousness and community / David Thorburn -- Modern Black autobiography in the tradition / Michael G. Cooke. |
| Subject |
Romanticism.
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Romanticism. |
| Indexed Term |
Western literatures, 1650-1970 Romanticism Critical studies. Readings |
| Added Author |
Thorburn, David (Professor of literature)
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Hartman, Geoffrey H.
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Yale University. Department of English.
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| ISBN |
0801407915 |
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9780801407918 |
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0801491444 paperback |
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9780801491443 paperback |
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