Prose in the Age of Poets : : Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to De Quincey / / Annette Wheeler Cafarelli.

In Prose in the Age of Poets, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli demonstrates that nonfictional narrative of the time was a central expression of British Romanticism. The rise of interest in the individual traditionally associated with Romantic autobiography was actually part of a wider cultural interest in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1990]
©1990
Year of Publication:1990
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter I. Introduction: Biography as Symbolic Narrative
  • Chapter II. Samuel Johnson: The Lives of the Poets as a Collective Sequence
  • Chapter III. The Romantic Agenda: Johnson and the Romantic Canon
  • Chapter IV. William Hazlitt: Narrative Hieroglyphics
  • Chapter V. Thomas De Quincey: The Allegory of Everyday Life
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index