Romantic Relays: The Epistolary Condition of Imagination in Coleridge, Byron, and Poe

The dissertation follows the survival of letters in literature in the early nineteenth century, after the popularity of overtly epistolary genres dramatically declined. It posits an epistolary condition, referring to the combination of tradition (rhetorical, literary) and practice (material, structural) that shapes the Romantic text and the author\u27s emergence in print. A historically specific tension between the letter, a genre defined by formal characteristics, and letters, a proto-medium of communication, the epistolary condition points to an underdeveloped counternarrative to that of Romantic genius and authorship. Each of three chapters analyzes a genre-defining work of Romanticism for the varied presentation of the self as the text serializes over time. Coleridge\u27s conversation lyrics, Byron\u27s first verse romance, and Poe\u27s ratiocinative tales about C. Auguste Dupin each advance the epistolary tradition in the interplay of print and manuscript, while the writer\u27s correspondence mediates the production of each text and its author. The apostrophic relay of address in Coleridge\u27s series of poems introduces the idiom of the epistolary condition in the context of a historically shifting sense of communication. The chapter on Childe Harold\u27s Pilgrimage reframes Byron\u27s notorious egotism as a heroic relay of intersubjective encounters. Poe\u27s Dupin tales are shown to play out a discursive relay of authorial and editorial modes under the constraints of American reprint culture. In addition to developing original interpretations of high canonical works, the dissertation advances a number of active conversations in the discipline. It shifts the ground of scholarly engagement with the epistolary from the discourses of genre and the archive to that of media and mediation. In so doing, it joins other attempts to nuance the prevailing treatment of print culture as the determining medium of the early nineteenth century. Finally, it models a practice of surface reading, one recent answer to symptomatic reading, and prioritizes the significance of the epistolary condition to the groundbreaking theory of lyric reading. ,146 page

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Interferons and monoclonal antibodies are among the most promising biological approaches to cancer treatment which have so far been investigated. Both natural and recombinant interferon-alpha preparations have shown activity in a number of trials in hematologic malignancies, even in previously treated patients; activity in solid tumors, however, has been limited. Unconjugated monoclonal antibodies have been safely administered in several small trials and have had therapeutic value on occasion. In spite of a number of remaining problems and questions, monoclonal antibodies and their conjugates seem likely to find a number of distinct roles in cancer treatment; elimination of micrometastases and purging of bone marrow for grafting may be among these roles.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44207/1/10549_2005_Article_BF01886730.pd

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