{"product_id":"new-critical-nostalgia-romantic-lyric-and-the-crisis-of-academic-life-hardback-9781531505110","title":"New Critical Nostalgia; Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life (Hardback) 9781531505110","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew Critical Nostalgia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRomantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher Rovee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531505110\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 7 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.553 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Critical Nostalgia \u003c\/i\u003eweighs 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Critical Nostalgia\u003c\/i\u003e 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. In Rovee's historically rich account, grounded in analysis of critical texts and enlivened by archival study, readers discover John Crowe Ransom's and William Wordsworth's shared existential nostalgia, witness the demolition of the \"immature\" Percy Shelley in the revolutionary textbook \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, explore the classroom give-and-take prompted by the close reading of John Keats, consider the strange ambivalence toward Lord Byron on the part of formalist critics and romantic scholars alike, and encounter the strikingly contemporary quantitative studies by one of the mid-century's preeminent poetry scholars, Josephine Miles. These complex and enthralling engagements with the romantic lyric introduce the reader to a dynamic intellectual milieu, in which professionals with varying methodological commitments (from New Critics to computationalists), working in radically different academic locales (from Nashville and New Haven to Baton Rouge and Berkeley), wrangled over what it means to read, with nothing less than the future of the discipline at stake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Our Elegiac Professionalism   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eRansom's Melancholy \u003cbr\u003e (Reading Wordsworth in Gambier, Ohio)   23\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eShelley's Immaturity   52\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eBrooks and the Collegiate Public,\u003cbr\u003e Reading Keats Together   85\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Case of Byron   110\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Emergence of Josephine Miles\u003cbr\u003e (Reading Wordsworth in Berkeley, California)   135\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: The Fields of Learning   177\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  193\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  197\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  253\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619265311000,"sku":"9781531505110","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-critical-nostalgia-romantic-lyric-and-the-crisis-of-academic-life-hardback-9781531505110","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}