num_pages: 216
description: This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in the fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James in order to defend the beleaguered "I" in these works against the depersonalizing tendencies of postructuralism. In reaffirming the importance of the human subject for the study of narrative, Auerbach shows how the first person form, in particular, underscores fundamental problems of literary how fictions come to be made, and the relation between these plots and the people who make them.
language: English
title: The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James
titlecomplete: The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James
publisher: Oxford University Press