New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781531505127,1531505120, 9781531505134, 1531505139

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• ISBN-10: 1531505139
• ISBN-13: 9781531505134
• Author: Christopher Rovee

New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today’s impassioned debates about method back to the discipline’s early professional era, when an unprecedented makeover of American higher education with far-reaching social consequences resulted in what we might call our first crisis of academic life. Rovee probes literary study’s nostalgic attachments to this 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 American university’s tectonic growth. In the process, he demonstrates literary study’s profound investment in romanticism and reveals the romantic lyric’s special affect, nostalgia, as having been part of English’s professional identity all along. New Critical Nostalgia meticulously shows what is lost in reducing mid-century American criticism and the intense, quirky, and unpredictable writings of central figures, such as Cleanth Brooks, Josephine Miles, and W. K. Wimsatt, to a glib monolith of New Critical anti-romanticism.

Table contents:

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)

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