Rovee New Critical Nostalgia

Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5315-0514-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Lit Z

New Critical Nostalgia explores literary study’s nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode in the historiography of English—the vigorous rejection of romanticism by American New Critics—in the new light of the midcentury American university’s tectonic growth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rovee, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Our Elegiac Professionalism 1

1 Ransom’s Melancholy
(Reading Wordsworth in Gambier, Ohio) 23

2 Shelley’s Immaturity 52

3 Brooks and the Collegiate Public,
Reading Keats Together 85

4 The Case of Byron 110

5 The Emergence of Josephine Miles
(Reading Wordsworth in Berkeley, California) 135

Epilogue: The Fields of Learning 177

Acknowledgments 193

Notes 197

Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

Rovee Christopher:
Christopher Rovee is Robert Penn Warren Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is author of Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism.Christopher Rovee is Robert Penn Warren Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is author of Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism.