The familiar essay, Romantic affect and metropolitan culture: the sweet security of streets
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Beteilige Person: Hull, Simon P. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018
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Abstract:"Through close readings of diverse examples by Lamb, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Irving and Poe, this book argues that the familiar essay in the Romantic period embodies a quintessentially metropolitan mode of affect. The generic traits of the essay - astuteness of observation, an ambulatory or paratactic movement of thought, and an urbane tone of wry or ironic humor - all predispose it to the expression of a detached, non-pathological state of mind. This is a mind conditioned by the quickened pace, assorted humanity, and plenitude of spectacle which characterize urban and urbanized life. In making a valuable, genre-based contribution to scholarship on the importance to Romantic studies of the city and metropolitan culture, the traditional concept of Romantic affect is reassessed"--
Umfang:xxiv, 247 Seiten 22 cm
ISBN:9781527505650
1527505650