Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas

by Lauren Rule Maxwell

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557536414
• ISBN13: 9781557536419
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"