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The Consolations of Space: The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville, and James Pamela Schirmeister
The Consolations of Space: The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville, and James
Pamela Schirmeister
This text examines the concept of the "mental landscape" in American romantic literature. It contends that this landscape creates a space in the imagination that helps to form a writer's perspective. The book also explores the function of literary allusion in 19th-century American romance.
233 pages, notes, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 1, 1990 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804717939 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 236 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 20 mm · 435 g |