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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... thing , " as if he were determined to expose its many - mindedness - how it is many - minded - in concrete and determi- nate ways . Rossetti's works are interesting partly because , more clearly than many artists and poets , he makes a ...
... thing , " as if he were determined to expose its many - mindedness - how it is many - minded - in concrete and determi- nate ways . Rossetti's works are interesting partly because , more clearly than many artists and poets , he makes a ...
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... things began to become clear . First , that textual the- ory and editorial practice were and had to be the ... thing - I will come back to this - it focused my attention on the field of the closely read text . For another , it made me ...
... things began to become clear . First , that textual the- ory and editorial practice were and had to be the ... thing - I will come back to this - it focused my attention on the field of the closely read text . For another , it made me ...
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... things wear robes of authority , order , and a massive integritas . They lend themselves not to openness and self - reflection , least of all to change . Narrativity , even in a discursive mode , has greater flexibilities . Under the ...
... things wear robes of authority , order , and a massive integritas . They lend themselves not to openness and self - reflection , least of all to change . Narrativity , even in a discursive mode , has greater flexibilities . Under the ...
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... things I wrote in the essay . Certain matters of fact are beyond dispute , like the clear literary allusions . But the essay isn't satisfying because of those matters of fact . However , it seemed satisfactory in 1972 - it was written ...
... things I wrote in the essay . Certain matters of fact are beyond dispute , like the clear literary allusions . But the essay isn't satisfying because of those matters of fact . However , it seemed satisfactory in 1972 - it was written ...
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... things . - So the ironist Byron is good , the " sincere " Wordsworth is bad . Please . I confess I am tired of answering that kind of remark . It's just a way to maintain some kind of moral ground as the measure of art . Blake was ...
... things . - So the ironist Byron is good , the " sincere " Wordsworth is bad . Please . I confess I am tired of answering that kind of remark . It's just a way to maintain some kind of moral ground as the measure of art . Blake was ...
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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