Author : William J. Scheick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292771819
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Book Synopsis The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century by : William J. Scheick
Download or read book The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century written by William J. Scheick and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romance genre was a popular literary form among writers and readers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but since then it has often been dismissed as juvenile, unmodern, improper, or subversive. In this study, William J. Scheick seeks to recover the place of romance in fin-de-siècle England and America; to distinguish among its subgenres of eventuary, aesthetic, and ethical romance; and to reinstate ethical romance as a major mode of artistic expression. The authors whose works Scheick discusses are Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. Rider Haggard, Henry James, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, H. G. Wells, John Kendrick Bangs, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Richard Harding Davis, Stephen Crane, Mary Austin, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Cholmondeley, and Rudyard Kipling. This wide selection expands the canon to include writers and works that highly merit re-reading by a new generation.