Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism Charmed Life /

Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism Charmed Life /

Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism: Charmed Life discusses charm as both an emotional and aesthetic phenomenon. Beginning with the first appearance of literary charm in the Sirens episode of the Odyssey, Richard Beckman traces charm throughout canonical literature, examining the metamor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beckman, Richard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Literature-History and criticism.
Comparative literature.
Literature, Modern.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Literary History.
Comparative Literature.
Shakespeare.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • I. Preface
  • II. The Sirens in Homer
  • III. Charm in Chaucer
  • IV. Spenser versus Charm
  • V. Shakespeare and Charm
  • VI. Milton and Dryden
  • VII. Pope
  • VIII. Charm transfigured
  • IX. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron
  • X. Gaskell, Thackeray, and Joyce
  • XI. Acerbic Charm; Ludic Charm
  • XII. Proust
  • XIII. Charm and Cleverness in Joyce
  • XIV. Mann's Felix Krull.

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