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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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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 |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan Auerbach |
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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'his analyses of the individual stories, though illustrative of, and responsive to, his methodology, are also intelligent and richly suggestive in their own right'Keith Carabine, University of Kent, Notes and Queries 'Auerbach's discussion of the complexities involved is masterly.'Times Higher Education Supplement Read more...


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