In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing

by Joel Porte

Book Overview

Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521362733
• ISBN13: 9780521362733
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"