Read e-book online Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, PDF

By Charles J. Rzepka

ISBN-10: 0754668711

ISBN-13: 9780754668718

amassed jointly for the 1st time, the essays during this quantity have been chosen to provide students prepared entry to special late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century contributions to scholarship at the Romantic interval and twentieth-century literature and tradition. integrated are Charles J. Rzepka's award-winning essays on Keats' "Chapman's Homer" sonnet and Wordsworth's "Michael" and his severe intervention into anachronistic readings concerning the situations surrounding the writing of 'Tintern Abbey'. different Romantic interval essays supply cutting edge readings of De Quincey's "Three-Fingered Jack" and the anti-slavery move. style is highlighted in Rzepka's exploration of race and zone in Charlie Chan, whereas his interdisciplinary essay at the Wizard of ounces and the recent lady takes the reader on a trip that encompasses the oz. of L. Frank Baum and Victor Fleming in addition to the pro lives of Judy Garland and Liza Minelli. Taken jointly, the essays supply not just a profession retrospective of an influential pupil and instructor yet a map of the concepts and controversies that experience motivated literary reports from the early Eighties to the current. As Peter Manning observes within the foreword, 'this assortment indicates that even in various essays the strength of a curious and disciplined brain makes itself felt'.

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