Prose in the age of poets : romanticism and biographical narrative from Johnson to De Quincey /
In Prose in the Age of Poets, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli demonstrates that nonfictional narrative of the time was a central expression of British Romanticism. The rise of interest in the individual traditionally associated with Romantic autobiography was actually part of a wider cultural interest in...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1990.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv4v347h |
Sommario:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter I. Introduction: Biography as Symbolic Narrative
- Chapter II. Samuel Johnson: The Lives of the Poets as a Collective Sequence
- Chapter III. The Romantic Agenda: Johnson and the Romantic Canon
- Chapter IV. William Hazlitt: Narrative Hieroglyphics
- Chapter V. Thomas De Quincey: The Allegory of Everyday Life
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index