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Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas (Comparative Cultural Studies)
Lauren Rule Maxwell
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Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels—Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's Palace of the Peacock—that contain crucial scenes engaging British Romantic poetry. Each work adapts figures from British Romantic poetry and translates them into an American context. Kincaid relies on the repeated image of the daffodil, Atwood displaces Lucy, McCarthy upends the American arcadia, Fitzgerald heaps Keatsian images of excess, and Harris transforms the albatross. In her close readings, Maxwell suggests that ... Read more
Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels—Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's Palace of the Peacock—that contain crucial scenes engaging British Romantic poetry. Each work adapts figures from British Romantic poetry and translates them into an American context. Kincaid relies on the repeated image of the daffodil, Atwood displaces Lucy, McCarthy upends the American arcadia, Fitzgerald heaps Keatsian images of excess, and Harris transforms the albatross. In her close readings, Maxwell suggests that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557536419
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V9781557536419
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About Lauren Rule Maxwell
Lauren Rule Maxwell teaches contemporary literature at The Citadel: The Military College of South Carolina. She has published articles about Margaret Atwood's work in Modern Fiction Studies and in Margaret Atwood Studies, about The Great Gatsby in The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and about consumer culture in the Cambridge University Press volume F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context.
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