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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... thought not to include it at all , it seemed so unsatisfactory . But in truth it did not seem unsatisfactory to me when I wrote it in 1972 , it only seems so now . So now it also seems an effective , even a satisfactory way to begin a ...
... thought not to include it at all , it seemed so unsatisfactory . But in truth it did not seem unsatisfactory to me when I wrote it in 1972 , it only seems so now . So now it also seems an effective , even a satisfactory way to begin a ...
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... thought . The Peirce we encounter in Ochs is a special creature developed from a kind of double helix , one strand " Peircean , " the other " Ochsian , " with each strand fused to the other in order to generate this new intelligent ...
... thought . The Peirce we encounter in Ochs is a special creature developed from a kind of double helix , one strand " Peircean , " the other " Ochsian , " with each strand fused to the other in order to generate this new intelligent ...
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... thought , and hence that Aesthetic Form is merely a way of referring to that entity ( what Aristotle called the " formal cause " of anything ) . In this sense Logic , Theology - whatever : all forms of thought may have their formal ...
... thought , and hence that Aesthetic Form is merely a way of referring to that entity ( what Aristotle called the " formal cause " of anything ) . In this sense Logic , Theology - whatever : all forms of thought may have their formal ...
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... thought , our last and only place Of refuge ; this , at least , shall still be mine : Though from our birth the faculty divine Is chained and tortured , cabin'd , cribb'd , confined And bred in darkness , lest the truth should shine Too ...
... thought , our last and only place Of refuge ; this , at least , shall still be mine : Though from our birth the faculty divine Is chained and tortured , cabin'd , cribb'd , confined And bred in darkness , lest the truth should shine Too ...
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... thought , the passion of its insistence , its determination to think and think again and again . The imagined “ refuge " - the dreams of home , hope , and life - are precisely " here , " in these moving lines that signal a decision ...
... thought , the passion of its insistence , its determination to think and think again and again . The imagined “ refuge " - the dreams of home , hope , and life - are precisely " here , " in these moving lines that signal a decision ...
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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