The scholar's art : literary studies in a managed world / Jerome McGann.

Author/creator McGann, Jerome J.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Descriptionxii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
English literature--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
Literature--History and criticism. --Theory, etc.
Literary historians--English-speaking countries.
Criticism--English-speaking countries.

Contents High instincts and real presences : two romantic responses to the death of beauty -- Romanticism, post-romanticism, and the afterlife of cultural authority -- The life of the dead : Laura Riding and the history of twentieth-century writing -- My kinsman Walter Scott -- Tennyson and the artists of the beautiful -- Beauty, a (nineteenth-century) user's manual -- Mr. James and his discovery -- Interpretation as a game that must be lost -- Visible language, interface, Ivanhoe -- Impossible fiction, or, the importance of being John Cowper Powys -- Beauty, the irreal, and the willing assumption of disbelief.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-227) and index.
LCCN 2005024582
ISBN0226500845 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226500853 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR99 .M26 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold