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The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an overview of the critical history of eccentricity; and secondly to conceptualise a notion that is often presented as a defining feature of the English "character". It addresses the key issues raised by eccentricity and brings out interdisciplinary links between science, politics, literature and the arts: the sources and dissemination of the concept of eccentricity; its relationship with the English national character as historical and ideolo...

Eccentrics and eccentricities --- Eccentrics in literature. --- English literature --- Eccentrics and eccentricities in literature --- Cranks (Persons) --- Eccentricities --- Fixed ideas --- Characters and characteristics --- Curiosities and wonders --- Personality --- History and criticism.

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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1599 --- Eccentrics in literature --- Excentriekelingen in de literatuur --- Excentriques dans la litterature --- Parodie dans la littérature --- Parodie in de literatuur --- Parody in literature --- European literature --- Littérature européenne --- Excentriques dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Parody in literature. --- Eccentrics in literature. --- -European literature --- Eccentrics and eccentricities in literature --- History and criticism --- -History and criticism --- -Eccentrics and eccentricities in literature --- Littérature européenne --- Parodie dans la littérature --- Excentriques dans la littérature --- 1450-1600 (Renaissance) --- European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism.