The scholar's art : literary studies in a managed world

Publication Data

• Title The scholar's art : literary studies in a managed world
• Author Jerome J. McGann
• Publisher University of Chicago Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Chicago, Ill.
• Language English

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 in a new key
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.

Topics

• English literature :: History and criticism
• American literature :: History and criticism
• Literature :: History and criticism :: Theory, etc.
• Literary historians :: English-speaking countries
• 013408422

The scholar's art : literary studies in a managed world by Jerome J. McGann. ISBN 0226500853. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.