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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191952725 Title: The romance of failure : first-person fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James Author: Jonathan Auerbach Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN/ISSN: 1602566003 9781602566002 9780195345254 0195345258 9780195057218 019505721X 128052376X 9781280523762 OCLC:191952725

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The romance of failure : first-person fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James

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The romance of failure : first-person fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James

Author:	Jonathan Auerbach
Publisher:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in the fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James in order to defend the beleaguered "I" in these works against the depersonalizing tendencies of postructuralism. In reaffirming the importance of the human subject for the study of narrative, Auerbach shows how the first person form, in particular, underscores fundamental problems of Read more...
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Subjects	Poe, Edgar Allan, -- 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation. James, Henry, -- 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc
Additional Physical Format:	Print version: Auerbach, Jonathan, 1954- Romance of failure. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 (DLC) 88012634
Named Person:	Edgar Allan Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Henry James; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Henry James; Edgar Allan Poe
Material Type:	Document, Internet resource
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ISBN:	1602566003 9781602566002 9780195345254 0195345258 9780195057218 019505721X 128052376X 9781280523762
OCLC Number:	191952725
Description:	1 online resource (201 pages)
Contents:	Introduction: "Proper Identity" and the First Person; 1. Disfiguring the Perfect Plot: Doubling and Self-Betrayal in Poe; 2. Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance and the Death of Enchantment; 3. The Jamesian Critical Romance; Afterword; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
Responsibility:	Jonathan Auerbach.
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