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- ISBN 9780859895507
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1997
- Publisher: University of Exeter
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Romanticism has long been considered a literary movement, but Pasco broadens its scope and suggests that it was a cultural reality born of widespread social factors and sustained by a mass market for novels, poems and plays that popularized attitudes and behaviour.
Allan H. Pasco is Hall Distinguished Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Kansas. He is the author of a number of books, including Allusion: A Literary Graft (Toronto, 1994) and has contributed many articles to the major journals.
