That Dangerous Figure Charles Lamb and the Critics
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
- Publish date: 02/01/1998
Description:
Lamb stimulates reactions that often lie outside the boundaries of literary criticism, motivated by ideological, cultural or political concerns, so he is in turn seen as a radical, a domestic saint, and, in the 1930, as a reactionary bourgeois. More recently, he is understood as a conscious artist; first, by New Critics as a transcendent optimist, then, in the post-structuralist era, as a tormented soul creating his artifice out of the limitations of human life. This study offers a comprehensive history of reactions of Lamb.
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