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In Respect to Egotism
Studies in American Romantic Writing

Part of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Author: Joel Porte

Date Published: April 2009
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521110006

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In this 1991 book, Joel Porte examines nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, self-projection, and self-concealment. The book begins by exploring the status of the 'text' in nineteenth-century American writing, the relationship of 'rhetorical' reading to historical context, and the nature of 'Romanticism' in an American setting. Porte then concentrates on the great authors of the period through a series of thematically linked but critically discrete essays on Brown, Irving, Parkman, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Throughout his important new study, Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar texts while at the same time casting an illuminating critical eye on less well-known territory. Readers of this book will come away with increased respect for the achievement of American Romantic writers.

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Product details
- Date Published: April 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521110006
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing, reading, Romanticism
1. 'Where…Is this singular career to terminate?': Bewildered pilgrims in early American fiction
2. 'Where there is no vision, the people perish…': Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World
3. Poe: Romantic centre, critical margin
4. Emerson: experiments in self-creation
5. Hawthorne: 'The obscurest man of letters in America'
6. Thoreau's self-perpetuating artefacts
7. Melville: Romantic cock-and-bull
or, the great art of telling the truth
8. Douglass and Stowe: scriptures of the redeemed self
9. Whitman: 'Take me as I am or not at all…'
Interchapter: Walt and Emily
10. Dickinson's 'Celestial vail': snowbound in self-consciousness
Notes
Index.
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Joel Porte