Book contents
- Poetics of Character
- Series page
- Poetics of Character
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword by James Chandler
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Part I Transatlantic literary history and the poetics of character
- Part II Reading character in comparison
- Chapter 2 Transatlantic contagion and the seductions of allegory
- Chapter 3 ‘Choiceflowers’ and characterless women
- Chapter 4 Characters and representatives: ‘floating fragments of a wrecked renown’
- Chapter 5 Literary friendship and transatlantic correspondences
- Chapter 6 Subjectsand objects: ‘always joined, never settled’
- Chapter 7 Historicalcharacters: virtue ethics and the limits of Romantic biography
- Chapter 8 Poeticsof character
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - Characters and representatives: ‘floating fragments of a wrecked renown’
from Part II - Reading character in comparison
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Poetics of Character
- Series page
- Poetics of Character
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword by James Chandler
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Part I Transatlantic literary history and the poetics of character
- Part II Reading character in comparison
- Chapter 2 Transatlantic contagion and the seductions of allegory
- Chapter 3 ‘Choiceflowers’ and characterless women
- Chapter 4 Characters and representatives: ‘floating fragments of a wrecked renown’
- Chapter 5 Literary friendship and transatlantic correspondences
- Chapter 6 Subjectsand objects: ‘always joined, never settled’
- Chapter 7 Historicalcharacters: virtue ethics and the limits of Romantic biography
- Chapter 8 Poeticsof character
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Poetics of CharacterTransatlantic Encounters 1700–1900, pp. 122 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013