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Informed by psychology, history, aestheticism, and affect theory
Definitive study showcasing the nuanced use of charm in literature including abrasive charm, uncanny charm, and more
Provides a wide-ranging reading of the literary etymology of charm
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 metamorphoses of charm through the millennia. The book examines the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Proust, Joyce, Mann, and others, considering the multiplicity of ways charm is defined, depicted, and utilized by authors. Positioning these poems, dramas, and novels as case studies, Beckman reveals the mercurial yet enduring connotations of charm.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Richard Beckman
About the author
Richard Beckman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Temple University, USA. He is the author of Joyce’s Rare View: the Nature of Things in Finnegans Wake (2007), and has published numerous articles and essays in the James Joyce Quarterly and the Journal of Modern Literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism
Book Subtitle: Charmed Life
Authors: Richard Beckman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25345-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25344-8Published: 01 October 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25345-5Published: 16 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 157
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary History, Comparative Literature, Shakespeare