The romantic hero – an abject hero

• Author(s): Quinteiro, Sílvia Moreno de Jesus e
• Date: 2004
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1507
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Romantismo; Herói romântico; Herói abjecto; Literatura comparada
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

This paper is part of a work in which I am analysing the romantic hero from several perspectives.1 For today’s presentation, I have chosen to focus on the possibility of considering the romantic hero an abject hero. I will start by defining this hero as a monster and will then proceed approaching the concepts of monster and abject through an analysis that will include a reading on the heroes in Quatrevingt-treize (Victor Hugo, 1874), Melmoth the Wanderer (Charles Maturin, 1820), Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (Adelbert von Chamisso, 1813), Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (Mary Shelley, 1818), Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (Alexandre Dumas, father, 1845), and Faust I (Goethe, 1808).