The Romantic Ideology

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Claiming that the scholarship and criticism of Romanticism and its works have for too long been dominated by a Romantic ideology-by an uncritical absorption in Romanticism's own self-representations-Jerome J. McGann presents a new, critical view of the subject that calls for a radically revisionary reading of Romanticism. ín the course of his study, McGann analyzes both the predominant theories of Romanticism (those deriving from Coleridge, Hegel, and Heine) and the products of its major English practitioners. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron are considered in greatest depth, but the entire movement is subjected to a searching critique. Arguing that poetry is produced and reproduced within concrete historical contexts and that criticism must take these contexts into account, McGann shows how the ideologies embodied in Romantic poetry and theory have shaped and distorted contemporary critical activities. "This book is modest in length, but not in its ambitions. McGann aims... Tovább

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Claiming that the scholarship and criticism of Romanticism and its works have for too long been dominated by a Romantic ideology-by an uncritical absorption in Romanticism's own self-representations-Jerome J. McGann presents a new, critical view of the subject that calls for a radically revisionary reading of Romanticism. ín the course of his study, McGann analyzes both the predominant theories of Romanticism (those deriving from Coleridge, Hegel, and Heine) and the products of its major English practitioners. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron are considered in greatest depth, but the entire movement is subjected to a searching critique. Arguing that poetry is produced and reproduced within concrete historical contexts and that criticism must take these contexts into account, McGann shows how the ideologies embodied in Romantic poetry and theory have shaped and distorted contemporary critical activities. "This book is modest in length, but not in its ambitions. McGann aims at nothing less than the radical reconstitution of historical criticism, and its restoration to its rightful place as the Queen of literary studies. . . . McGann's book will be a very important and seminal manifesto for Romantic scholarship."-Peter L. Thorslev, Jr., Keats-Shelley Journal "This book will be invaluable, . . . restoring perspective to all historical and ideological definitions of Romanticism."-Choice Jerome J. McGann is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of Humanities at the California Institute of Technology. His other books include Fiery Dust: Byron's Poetic Development, Swinburne: An Experiment in Criticism, ' 'Don Jüan'' in Context, A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, and Textual Criticism and Literary Interpretation, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Vissza