The beauty of inflections : literary investigations in historical method and theory /

A collection of essays written between 1977 and 1983 which explores the fault-lines that mark the various kinds of ahistorical literary studies from the New Criticism to Post-structuralism and which aims to develop a fully elaborated socio-historical criticism for literary works.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McGann, Jerome J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford [Oxfordshire] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1985.
Subjects:	Historical criticism (Literature) Literature and history > Great Britain. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Literature and history. Critique historique (Littérature) Littérature et histoire. Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Littérature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne. Littérature > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc. English literature Literature and history Literature > Theory, etc. Great Britain Literatuurkritiek. Critique. 1800-1899 Literature > Criticism > Theories Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

1. Keats and the historical method in literary criticism
2. Textual studies and practical criticism: The monks and the giants: textual and biographical studies and the interpretation of literary works
Shall these bones live?
The text, the poem, and the problem of historical method
3. Interpretation and critical history: The ancient mariner: the meaning of the meanings
Tennyson and the histories of criticism
4. Problems of canon and periodization: Christina Rossetti's poems: a new edition and a revaluation
The religious poetry of Christina Rossetti
5. Literature and the critique of history: The book of Byron and the book of the world
The anachronism of George Crabbe
Rome and its romantic significance
Conclusion: Imaginative belief and critical commitment.