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Fracture and fragmentation in British romanticism / Alexander Regier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Regier, Alexander, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 81.
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 81
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Fracture & Fragmentation in British Romanticism
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- What associates fragmentation with Romanticism? In this book, Alexander Regier explains how fracture and fragmentation form a lens through which some central concerns of Romanticism can be analysed in a particularly effective way. These categories also supply a critical framework for a discussion of fundamental issues concerning language and thought in the period. Over the course of the volume, Regier discusses fracture and fragmentation thematically and structurally, offering new readings of Wordsworth, Kant, Burke, Keats, and De Quincey, as well as analysing central intellectual presuppositions of the period. He also highlights Romanticism's importance for contemporary scholarship, especially in the writings of Benjamin and de Man. More generally, Regier's discussion of fragmentation exposes a philosophical problem that lies behind the definition of Romanticism.
- Contents:
- A brotherhood is broken: Babel and the fragmentation of language
- Figuring it out: the origin of language and anthropomorphism
- Forces trembling underneath: the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime
- A blue chasm: Wordsworth's The Prelude and the figure of parenthesis
- Letters from the grave: John Keats's fragmented corpus
- The doubling force of citation: De Quincey's Wordsworthian archive
- Philological fractures: Paul de Man's Romantic rhetoric.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-20597-2
- 0-511-84723-8
- 1-282-63053-9
- 9786612630538
- 0-511-74893-0
- 0-511-74313-0
- 0-511-74968-6
- 0-511-74206-1
- 0-511-75043-9
- 0-511-74421-8
- OCLC:
- 638859745
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