The spirit of solitude : conventions and continuities in late romance / Jay Macpherson
1982, 1st edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #410496
ISBN: 0300026323
Physical description; (xv, 349 pages) : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-331) and index. Contents; The Pastoral Landscape -- Tasso: A Late- Pastoral Design -- Elegy and the elegiac. Appendix: Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise -- Werther: Elegiac Romance -- Appendix 1: "Trilogie der Leidenschaft." Appendix 2: The Lieder cycles -- Narcissus : Echo : Siren -- Nymphs, Swains, and Spirits of solitude -- The Artist: Setting -- The Artist: Soulmate -- Summer and Winter: Life, Dream, and Art -- The Alchemist. Appendix: The Spider and the Bee -- The Avenger -- Epilogue: This Swan Neck of the Woods. Subjects; Literature, Modern History and criticism. Romanticism. LITERARY CRITICISM Gothic & Romance. Literature, Modern. Literature, Modern History and criticism.
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