New critical nostalgia : romantic lyric and the crisis of academic life /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Lit z.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: our elegiac professionalism
- 1. Ransom's melancholy (reading Wordsworth in Gambier, Ohio)
- 2. Shelley's immaturity
- 3. Brooks and the collegiate public, reading Keats together
- 4. The case of Byron
- 5. The emergence of Josephine Miles (reading Wordsworth in Berkeley, California)
- Epilogue: the fields of learning.