Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, ...

Romanticism, he said, may perhaps be called the literature of intoxication and dream. Freud has pictured the human ego as living a harassed life between the conflicting claims of the instinctive, ...

When reading Polish romantic literature, you may be bewildered at how unusual it seems – especially compared to its French, English, and American versions. There may be similar themes and philosophy ...