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Double Vision - Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Palimpsests (Hardcover)
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Double Vision - Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Palimpsests (Hardcover)
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A palimpsest is at once easy to define and, at the same time, so
infinitely various as to defy all denotation. A thrifty technique
employed by the ancients to recycle scarce resources? Or a metaphor
for the human mind? A text that overwrites another text? Or a
culture that overwrites another culture? This concise, readable
volume examines texts written by such figures as William Blake,
Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass, in order
to explore the dualistic thinking involved in the creation of
literary palimpsests during the tempestuous eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Contributors to this collection analyze the
alienation and disorientation caused by the tremendous social and
political revolution going on throughout the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries in the United States and Great Britain.
Writers and philosophers of the time were charged with the task of
reorienting themselves and their readers within the ever-changing
social and political constructs that characterized their lives.
Double Vision shows how these writers employed the use of the
palimpsest in their attempts to strike a balance between preserving
old ways and privileging new innovations.
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