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Romantic hospitality and the resistance to accommodation / Peter Melville.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Peter, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Criticism and interpretation.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Criticism and interpretation.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Hospitality in literature.
- Strangers in literature.
- Noncitizens in literature.
- Romanticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What does hospitality have to do with Romanticism? What are the conditions of a Romantic welcome? Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation traces the curious passage of strangers through representative texts of English Romanticism, while also considering some European philosophical ""pre-texts"" of this tradition. From Rousseau's invocation of the cot-less Carib to Coleridge's reception of his Porlockian caller, Romanticisms encounters with the ""strange"" remind us that the hospitable relation between subject and Other is invariably fraught with problems. Dra
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 UNSETTLING ROUSSEAU: Hospitality in Emile and Discourse on Inequality; 2 THE RIGHTS OF THE STRANGER: Kant's "Bond of Hospitality"; 3 COLERIDGE AND THE POETICS OF HOSPITABLE FAILURE; 4 HOSPITALITY WITHOUT END: "Visitation" and Obligation in Mary Shelley's: The Last Man; CONCLUSION: ROMANTIC HOSPITALITY TO COME; WORKS CITED; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Melville, Peter, Romantic hospitality and the resistance to accommodation
- ISBN:
- 9786610908035
- 9781280908033
- 1280908033
- 9781554581146
- 1554581141
- OCLC:
- 753479551
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