Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity, 1774-1830

by Andrea K. Henderson

Overview

A defining feature of Romantic writing, critics have long agreed, is its characterization of the self in terms of psychological depth. Many Romantic writers, however, did not conceive of the self in this way, and in Romantic Identities Andrea K. Henderson investigates Romantic writing that challenges the "depth" model, or operates outside its domain. Henderson explores various forms of discourse and their perceptions of identity, examines subjects ranging from obstetrics to gothicism, and considers writings by Radcliffe, Byron, Scott, and Shelley, among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521027106
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/02/2006
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Romanticism , #20
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: from coins to hearts: Romantic forms of subjectivity; 1. Doll-machines and butcher-shop meat: models of childbirth in the early stages of industrial capitalism; 2. 'An embarrassing subject': use value and exchange value in early gothic characterization; 3. From 'race' to 'place' in 'The Prisoner of Chillon'; 4. Incarnate imagination and The Cenci; 5. Centrality and circulation in The Heart of Mid-Lothian; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Romantic Identities is a quietly distinguished book, and all the more welcome for its unassuming intelligence." The Wordsworth Circle

"Andrea Henderson's Romantic Identities is an ambitious and stimulating book that contains enlightening and enlivening readings of a wide range of literary and other writings from the Romantic period." Nineteenth-Century Literature

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