This dissertation brings together essays written on various texts by Charles Lamb, Mary Anne Lamb, William Hazlitt, Sarah Hazlitt and Paul de Man. In Chapter One, I draw on Bakhtin's ideas of heteroglossia and dialogism to argue that the meaning of Charles Lamb's "Confessions of a Drunkard," published in seven different contexts, depends to a great extent on the various professional discourses--utilitarian, evangelical, and medical--and everyday communicative practices that existed in the public discourse before the essay was written. / In Chapter Two, I use Michel Foucault's work on sexuality and madness to re-read Lamb's essays "Confessions of a Drunkard" and "Edax on Appetite" and William Hazlitt's novel Liber Amoris as confessions that partake of the pedagogical imperative to produce truths about the body. In Chapter Three I draw upon Bakhtin, Jurgen Habermas, and Foucault to help elucidate the public and private bodies of desire in Hazlitt's Liber Amoris and Sarah Hazlitt's Journal of My Trip to Scotland. In Chapter Four, I use Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject and Foucault's concepts of the regulated body to show through Mary Lamb's writings how the regulatory discourses of madness, nationalism and empire, and the family silenced and suppressed the violent body of Mary Lamb as well as countless others in the process of expunging the mad body from the text of Romantic culture. In my final chapter, I take up some of Paul de Man's later engagements with Romantic writers to show how de Man in his later work re-presents Romanticism and how Romanticism re-presents de Man in confrontation with the unconscious. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4789. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77630 |
| Contributors | Woodbery, Bonnie Lee., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 181 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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