The romance of failure : first-person fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James /

This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in the fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James in order to defend the beleaguered "I" in these works against the depersonalizing tendencies of postructuralism. In reaffirming the importance of the human subjec...

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Main Author: Auerbach, Jonathan, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
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