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The landscapes of alienation : ideological subversion in Kafka, Céline, and Onetti

This volume seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in the foreshadowing of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift.
Print Book, English, 1991
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1991
Criticism, interpretation, etc
264 pages ; 23 cm
9780804718684, 9780804715614, 0804718687, 0804715610
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Introduction 1. On textual production 2. The urbane sublime 3. Transcendental aesthetics 4. The discovery of consciousness 5. The economy of sensibility 6. Goldsmith's endings 7. The Vicar of Wakefield 8. She Stoops to Conquer 9. Sheridan's semiotics 10. Beaumarchais's stagecraft 11. Sterne's stories 12. Wordsworth's old gray stone 13. Touchstones Notes Index.