Double Vision: Literary Palimpsests of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0739125699 ISBN 13: 9780739125694

Casa editrice: Lexington Books, 2008

Riassunto

Tremendous philosophical, social, technological, and aesthetic revolutions overwhelmed those living in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This volume examines the manner in which writers employed the metaphor of the literary palimpsest to respond to the resulting disorientation and alienation of this period of great change.

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L'autore

Darby Lewes is professor of English at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania.

Product Description

A palimpsest is at once easy to define and, at the same time, so infinitely various as to defy all denotation. A thrifty technique employed by the ancients to recycle scarce resources? Or a metaphor for the human mind? A text that overwrites another text? Or a culture that overwrites another culture? This concise, readable volume examines texts written by such figures as William Blake, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass, in order to explore the dualistic thinking involved in the creation of literary palimpsests during the tempestuous eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Contributors to this collection analyze the alienation and disorientation caused by the tremendous social and political revolution going on throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States and Great Britain. Writers and philosophers of the time were charged with the task of reorienting themselves and their readers within the ever-changing social and political constructs that characterized their lives. Double Vision shows how these writers employed the use of the palimpsest in their attempts to strike a balance between preserving old ways and privileging new innovations.

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• Editore: Lexington Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0739125699
• ISBN 13: 9780739125694
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 273
• Redattore: Lewes Darby