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The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Year:
1989
Readings of major works by Percy Byssge Shelley, Emily Brontë, and Heinrich von Kleist. An examination of how these authors treat the crucial questions of authority and representation in such central texts as Prometheus Unbound, Wuthering Heights, and Penthesilea. What is at stake is the relation of truth and fiction to the concepts of self, law, passion, art, and language.