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 | | In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Joel Porte ISBN-10: 9780521362733 ISBN-10: 0-521-36273-3 ISBN-13: 9780521362733 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-36273-3 Hardcover 1991-07-26 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, self-projection, and self-concealment. The book begins by exploring the status of the "text" in nineteenth-century American writing, the relationship of "rhetorical" reading to historical context, and the nature of "Romanticism" in an American setting. Porte then concentrates on the great authors of the period through a series of thematically linked but critically discrete essays on Brown, Irving, Parkman, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Frederick Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Throughout his important new study, Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar texts while at the same time casting an illuminating critical eye on less well-known territory. Readers of this book will come away with increased respect for the achievement of American Romantic writers. | ||
Book Description Throughout this important new study of American Romanticism Professor Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar and less familiar texts.Throughout this important new study of American Romanticism Professor Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar and less familiar texts. | ||