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The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism, 1820 - 1839

The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism, 1820 - 1839

Cope, Jonas

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 147442130X
ISBN13: 9781474421300
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Apr 30 2018
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Restructures and revitalises late Romantic literature as a movement fascinated with competing claims about the reality and knowability of character
The idea of character that many of us still take for granted - whether considered in print as an object of representation, or in life as a congenital 'bias' or an acquirable moral possession - is the shared concern of a multidisciplinary debate in reform-era Britain. This book argues for the independent merits of several lesser-known works written in England and Scotland during the 1820s and 1830s, recovering in these works a sustained ideological engagement with the ever-slippery concept of character. The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism studies texts written by contemporary poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, philosophers, phrenologists, sociologists, gossip-mongers and anonymous correspondents. Its main authors of interest include David Hume, Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Hartley Coleridge, Letitia Landon, Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

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