Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger

by David Simpson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226922359
• ISBN13: 9780226922355
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"