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Spontaneity and form in modern prose /

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This publication studies the afterlife of the Romantic idea of spontaneity in transatlantic modern prose in the work of William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Herman Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Saul Bellow, to provide a broad-based historical enqu...

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Main Author: Ravinthiran, Vidyan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
English prose literature > History and criticism.
Prose anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Semiotics & Theory.
Humor.
English prose literature
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This publication studies the afterlife of the Romantic idea of spontaneity in transatlantic modern prose in the work of William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Herman Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Saul Bellow, to provide a broad-based historical enquiry into what it means to read, write, and live as a modern person.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191886676
019188667X