For the last two centuries, literature has tested the authority of the individual and the community. With a historical as well as an interpretative emphasis, Bromwich explores this tension. He shows why the public-mindedness of the eighteenth century is as limited a model for readers now as the individualism of the nineteenth century.
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For the last two centuries, literature has tested the authority of the individual and the community. With a historical as well as an interpretative emphasis, Bromwich explores this tension. He shows why the public-mindedness of the eighteenth century is as limited a model for readers now as the individualism of the nineteenth century.
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VG-(Ex-art library, with spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pocket; Ten-gray cloth, tan dust jacket in mylar cover, 317 pp. A collection of 15 essays by the author, exploring the themes of self and community in literature. "Shows why the public-mindedness of the eighteenth century is as limited a model for readers now as the individualism of the nineteenth century. Calling attention tot he ambivalence of the great writers, he cites Emerson's sense of the conflict between 'spirit' and commodity' and Burke's conviction that human nature is at once given and chosen. Elsewhere, he describes the attenuation of social concern even in the truest modern followers of the romantics--as in the conscious turn away from Wordsworth's morality in poems by Stevens and Frost. Other topics include Keats's politics, Whitman's prose, William Cobbett's journalism, and the standards of the Edinburgh Review." (dj).
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Add this copy of A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community From Edmund to cart. $179.90, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Harvard University Press.
