The rhetoric of American romance : dialectic and identity in Emerson, and Dickinson, Poe, and Hawthorne : Carton, Evan

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The rhetoric of American romance : dialectic and identity in Emerson, and Dickinson, Poe, and Hawthorne : Carton, Evan

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United States, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 — Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy in literature, Romanticism — United States, Self in literature, American literature — 19th century — History and criticism, American literature, Romanticism
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Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press
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und

ix, 288 p. ; 24 cm

Includes index

Bibliography: p. 265-283

Philosophy, language, and “the true romance” — Part One: Emerson, Dickinson, and Poe. Originality and the self; The terror of integration, the terror of detachment; The power of words; Parody and possibility — Part Two: Hawthorne. The province of romance; The prison door; Calculated error

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