| 000 -LEADER |
|---|
| fixed length control field |
a |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
|---|
| fixed length control field |
250611b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
|---|
| International Standard Book Number |
978-0226922355 |
| Terms of availability |
(hbk) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
|---|
| Classification number |
820.9145 |
| Item number |
SIM |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
|---|
| Personal name |
Simpson, David |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
|---|
| Title |
Romanticism and the question of the stranger |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
|---|
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of Chicago Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2013 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Chicago : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|---|
| Extent |
x, 271 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
|---|
| Price amount |
44.00 |
| Price type code |
$ |
| Unit of pricing |
89.00 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
|---|
| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
|---|
| Summary, etc |
In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger-the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor-carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are "different" has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. In Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger, David Simpson locates the figure of the stranger and the rhetoric of strangeness in romanticism and places them in a tradition that extends from antiquity to today. Simpson shows that debates about strangers loomed large in the French Republic of the 1790s, resulting in heated discourse that weighed who was to be welcomed and who was to be proscribed as dangerous. Placing this debate in the context of classical, biblical, and other later writings, he identifies a persistent difficulty in controlling the play between the despised and the desired. He examines the stranger as found in the works of Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and Southey, as well as in depictions of the betrayals of hospitality in the literature of slavery and exploration-as in Mungo Park's Travels and Stedman's Narrative-and portrayals of strange women in de Staël, Rousseau, and Burney. Contributing to a rich strain of thinking about the stranger that includes interventions by Ricoeur and Derrida, Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger reveals the complex history of encounters with alien figures and our continued struggles with romantic concerns about the unknown. In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger - the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor - carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are 'different' has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. David Simpson locates the figure of the stranger and the rhetoric of strangeness in romanticism and places them in a tradition that extends from antiquity to today. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
|---|
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Literary Criticism |
|
|---|
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Historical Events |
|
|---|
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Crusader novels |
|
|---|
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Gothic novel |
|
|---|
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Monotheisms |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
|---|
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
|
| Item type |
Books |