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The Consolations of Space. The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville, and James.
Pamela Schirmeister
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Description for The Consolations of Space. The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville, and James.
Hardcover. This text examines the concept of the "mental landscape" in American romantic literature. It contends that this landscape creates a space in the imagination that helps to form a writer's perspective. The book also explores the function of literary allusion in 19th-century American romance. Num Pages: 236 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
A Stanford University Press classic.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804717939
SKU
V9780804717939
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99-1
Reviews for The Consolations of Space. The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville, and James.
'A book of the first importance. I take particular delight in its moral intelligence, its deep aesthetic insight, and its ability to sketch a powerful and suggestive theory of American romanticism in a few strokes ... What this book is finally about is not only what an American romance is, but also how to specify the conditions under which imagination ... Read more