Byron and RomanticismThis 2002 collection of essays represents twenty-five years of work by one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies, Jerome McGann. The collection demonstrates McGann's evolution as a scholar, editor, critic, theorist, and historian. His 'General Analytic and Historical Introduction' to the collection presents a meditation on the history of his own research on Byron, in particular how scholarly editing interacted with the theoretical innovations in literary criticism over the last quarter of the twentieth century. McGann's receptiveness to dialogic forms of criticism is also illustrated in this collection, which contains an interview and concludes with a dialogue between McGann and the editor. Many of these essays have previously been available only in specialist scholarly journals. Now McGann's influential work on Byron can be appreciated more widely by new generations of students and scholars. |
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... move for me was therefore my graduate research : a doctoral thesis on Byron and the theoretical problems of " biographical criticism . " I wanted to study why Byron , who for nearly a hundred years fairly defined , in the broadest ...
... move for me was therefore my graduate research : a doctoral thesis on Byron and the theoretical problems of " biographical criticism . " I wanted to study why Byron , who for nearly a hundred years fairly defined , in the broadest ...
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... moved from prag- matism to pragmaticism , from a philosophic program of error - correction to a program reflecting on its own processes of error - correction . In this movement Peirce discovers the form of the existential graph , a form ...
... moved from prag- matism to pragmaticism , from a philosophic program of error - correction to a program reflecting on its own processes of error - correction . In this movement Peirce discovers the form of the existential graph , a form ...
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... moving lines that signal a decision never to cease this side of an absolute extinction . Nor is there any thought that the thinking will come out " right , " for this is thinking . that lives in its expenditures . Unlike Wordsworth ...
... moving lines that signal a decision never to cease this side of an absolute extinction . Nor is there any thought that the thinking will come out " right , " for this is thinking . that lives in its expenditures . Unlike Wordsworth ...
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... move , which can be given a precise historical locus as we know , would insulate Byron from the aesthetic challenge raised by deconstruction . His work was invisible through deconstruc- tive lenses exactly because it is a discourse of ...
... move , which can be given a precise historical locus as we know , would insulate Byron from the aesthetic challenge raised by deconstruction . His work was invisible through deconstruc- tive lenses exactly because it is a discourse of ...
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Contents
Part I | 19 |
Byron mobility and the poetics of historical ventriloquism | 36 |
My brain is feminine Byron and the poetry of deception | 53 |
What difference do the circumstances of publication make to the interpretation of a literary work? | 77 |
Byron and the anonymous lyric | 93 |
Private poetry public deception | 113 |
Hero with a thousand faces the rhetoric of Byronism | 141 |
Byron and the lyric of sensibility | 160 |
History herstory theirstory ourstory | 223 |
Literature meaning and the discontinuity of fact | 231 |
Rethinking Romanticism | 236 |
An interview with Jerome McGann | 256 |
Poetry 17801832 | 266 |
Byron and Romanticism a dialogue Jerome McGann and the editor James Soderholm | 288 |
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