Romantic hospitality and the resistance to accommodation

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    • Melville, Peter

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Romantic hospitality and the resistance to accommodation

Peter Melville

Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index

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What does hospitality have to do with Romanticism? What are the conditions of a Romantic welcome? Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation traces the curious passage of strangers through representative texts of English Romanticism, while also considering some European philosophical ""pre-texts"" of this tradition. From Rousseau's invocation of the cot-less Carib to Coleridge's reception of his Porlockian caller, Romanticisms encounters with the ""strange"" remind us that the hospitable relation between subject and Other is invariably fraught with problems. Drawing on recent theories of accommodation and estrangement, Peter Melville argues that the texts of Romantic hospitality (including those of Rousseau, Kant, Coleridge, and Mary Shelley) are often troubled by the subject's failure to welcome the Other without also exposing the stranger to some form of hostility or violence. Far from convincing Romantic writers to abandon the figure of hospitality, this failure invites them instead to articulate and theorize a paradoxical imperative governing the subject's encounters with strangers: if the obligation to welcome the Other is ultimately impossible to fulfill, then it is also impossible to ignore. This paradox is precisely what makes Romantic hospitality an act of responsibility. Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation brings together the wide-ranging interests of hospitality theory, diet studies, and literary ethics within a single investigation of visitation and accommodation in the Romantic period. As re-visionary as it is interdisciplinary, the book demonstrates not only the extent to which we continue to be influenced by Romantic views of the stranger but also, more importantly, what Romanticism has to teach us about our own hospitable obligations within this heritage.

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Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation by Peter Melville Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading the Foreign: Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation Of Mice and Women: A Preliminary Case Study for a Theory of Romantic Hospitality Reading the Romantic Foreign The Impossibility of Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation Chapter One: Unsettling Rousseau: Hospitality in Emile and Discourse on Inequality Hostile Hermit, Inhospitable Levite Belated Welcomes: Hospitality in Emile ""L'hospitalité de Calypso"" The Sleepy Carib: Rousseau as Host Chapter Two: The Rights of the Stranger: Kant's ""Bond of Hospitality"" Eating, Tasting, Hosting: Toward a Philosophy of the Dinner Table The Politics of Eating (with) Others Staging the Nation: Hospitable Performances in the Anthropology International Hospitality and the Conditioning of a Perpetual Peace On the Foreigner in Perpetual Peace Chapter Three: Coleridge and the Poetics of Hospitable Failure A Mouse in the House Coleridge and the Fort-Da Game of Hospitality The Case of ""Christabel"" The Fluttering ""Stranger"" and the Failure of the Hospitable Imagination Two Too Many Sisters: Coleridge's Discursive Homelessness Chapter Four: Hospitality without End: ""Visitation"" and Obligation in Mary Shelley's The Last Man The ""Work"" of Lionel's Narrative and the Death of the Reader Animal Hospitality and the ""Lure"" of Language Visiting the Sibyl Plague as Metaphor and the History of Disease ""Visitations"" of the Plague Ryland's Pineapples, England's Hospital Foreign Bodies / Foreign Infections (Conclusion) Conclusion: Romantic Hospitality to Come Guest as Allergen Unspeakable Acts: Toward a Hospitality to Come Works Cited Index

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