Charles Lamb's Imperfect Solitudes

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作者
Haughton-Shaw, Eliza [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, Cambridge, England
关键词
Lamb; the essay; solitude; humour; health; creativity;
D O I
10.3366/rom.2022.0564
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I [文学];
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05 ;
摘要
Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia (1820-25) are often seen as minor contributions to the Romantic tradition, and the essays themselves playfully foreground their own minority. This article traces the self-deprecating humour of the Elia essays to the writer's perceived inability to generate for himself the kind of self-enclosure which is envisioned by the Romantic lyric. It reads solitude as both a wished-for state and a concept under formation in the Elia writings, and argues that humour - with its masks, alternate selves, and performance of roles - offers Lamb an alternative to the more serious authority of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a way of `making do' with imperfect environmental conditions for creativity.
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