The Artistry of Exile

by Jane Stabler

The Artistry of Exile is a new reading of one of the most important themes of nineteenth-century literature. Exile represents a crisis in the always present tension between self and culture, the disturbance of memory, the quest for home, and the survival or not of life's heart quakes -- all of which became identifying features of canonical Romanticism. Focusing on two interlinked groups of writers who, for various reasons, felt cast out of England...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199590249
• ISBN13: 9780199590247
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.8"