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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Romantic Literature"”.
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Severed Heads and Martyred Souls: Crime and Capital Punishment in French Romantic Literature
… The body of the dissertation investigates Romantic authors' common preoccupations with such issues as the psychology of prisoners, their judges, and the crowds at trials and executions; the necessity of expiation and the validity of society's vengeance against criminals; and the martyrdom …
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The Anguish of Ahasverus: The Legend of the Wandering Jew in English Romantic Literature
… Wandering Jew on specific works of three English Romantic poets, Shelley, Byron, and Coleridge, and of the use made by these poets of the Legend. Certain critics, concerned with the whole field of the Legend, have discussed the Legend as legend or as folklore, as for example, Anderson, and …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
… touch has largely been neglected in the study of Romantic literature. While recent histories of the senses hold that sight and touch became disarticulated toward the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, these studies tend to emphasize the elevation of sight as a more …
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Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism
… traces the vibrant interchange between Romantic literature and science in the nineteenth century that necessitated new forms of aesthetics. I argue that Romantic writers and scientists co-created a new way of understanding nature that moved away from hierarchical anthropocentrism toward …
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Sir William Jones and Representations of Hinduism in British Poetry, 1784-1812
… examines the representations of Hinduism in Romantic poetry from 1784 to 1812, using as case studies the poetry of Sir William Jones, William Blake, Robert Southey and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The study argues that Jones’ sympathetic and syncretic representations of Hinduism in his nine ‘Hymns’ …
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The window, the mirror, and the stone: A reassessment of the roles of mimesis and opsis in critical theory
… is based on M. H. Abrams' pivotal book on romantic literature, The Mirror and the Lamp. This thesis expands upon his critical classifications for mimetic literature and adds an additional classification to deal with opsitic verbal structures, namely the "stone."; The "window" is shown to …
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"""The Everyday Affective Life of Racism"": Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature"
… of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature,” I summon the concept of racial melancholia put forth by Anne Anlin Cheng, David Eng, and Shinhee Han as a springboard, expanding their definitions by closely reading the forms of racial melancholia and ultimately arguing that racial …
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Poet/censor/reader: Shelley's struggle for a popular reading audience
… (and often overlooked) influence on the forms of romantic literature. In fact, censorship is one of the key social forces which furthered the establishment of ""literature"" as a specifically ""imaginary"" discursive form concerned more with ""eternal Truths"" and ""ideals"" than with the muck and …
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Chateaubriand's René as a Philosophical Reaction to the Enlightenment and Early Romantic Sentiment
… has been read as the founding text of the French Romantic movement. While this text did in fact serve to define many of the characteristics of French Romantic literature, simply labeling it as such is anachronistic and obscures the more profound philosophical and theological claims Chateaubriand …
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The Romantic Other: Adam Mickiewicz in Russia
… the role of Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz as the Romantic Other in the formation of Russia's Romantic identity during his Russian sojourn between 1824 and 1829. Analysis of Mickiewicz's image as the poetic Other, with respect to his Russian contemporaries, reveals the process that led to the …
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Romantic Citation and the Receding Future
This dissertation reads citation in Romantic literature as an aporetic movement between present and past, whereby what is cited becomes the receding ground on which the present and future’s erosion is inscribed. Citation exceeds quotation in that it forwards a disastrous intertextuality that …
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Derriere Zola: Le corps feminin par le petit bout de la lorgnette
"Dans cette these, nous tenons a etudier et a dechiffrer les representations multiples du corps feminin dans l'oeuvre de Zola dans un effort de resoudre le conflit entre la theorie et la representation de la femme dans les Rougon-Macquart. Vers cette fin de ""dechiffrage"", nous etudierons …
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The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
"The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China" argues that Romantic literature shaped nineteenth-century interimperial exchanges between Britain and China. This project bridges two bodies of literary scholarship immersed in Anglo-Sino discourse: eighteenth-century scholarship, which reveals British …
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Conscience, ethics and politics: beyond beautiful souls
… it looks at the figure of the beautiful soul in romantic literature as an important resource with which to re-assess the problem of conscience. To show how this thesis stages a conversation between three thinkers: Charles Taylor, Gillian Rose and Rowan Williams. I offer a critical survey of …