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- Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Purdue University Press
- Series: Comparative Cultural Studies
summary
Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels—Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's Palace of the Peacock—that contain crucial scenes engaging British Romantic poetry. Each work adapts figures from British Romantic poetry and translates them into an American context. Kincaid relies on the repeated image of the daffodil, Atwood displaces Lucy, McCarthy upends the American arcadia, Fitzgerald heaps Keatsian images of excess, and Harris transforms the albatross.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-11
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Conclusion: British Legacy in the Americas
- pp. 139-142
- Epilogue: Angels in America Guard and Guide
- pp. 143-157
- Works Cited
- pp. 158-173
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612492629
Related ISBN(s)
9781557536419, 9781612492612
MARC Record
OCLC
847648818
Pages
187
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No