{"product_id":"rhetoric-poetics-and-literary-historiography-the-formation-of-a-discipline-at-the-turn-of-the-nineteenth-century-hardback-9781512824155","title":"Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography; The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century (Hardback) 9781512824155","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStefan H. Uhlig (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512824155\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.467 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An ambitious essay in the history of ideas—one based on lots of close reading and scrupulous attention to the actual positions in the debates examined.\" (Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary University of London) \"This book stands to be of great value to literary studies, both because of the precision it helps introduce into discussions of literary history—suddenly revealed to be an even looser, baggier monster than even far-reaching projects of distant reading have revealed—and because of the compelling microhistories it unearths within the genealogy of literary studies.\" (Matthew Wickman, Brigham Young University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography\u003c\/i\u003e, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the early years of the field search for unifying origins of literature as a discipline and object of study. Uhlig turns to the decades around 1800 in Europe to reveal that the inception of the literary field was instead defined by intellectual diversity and contestation. He draws on an array of European writers to show how three schools of literary study—rhetoric teaching, theories of poetry, and literary history—emerged and clashed during this time, offering near-contemporaneous, yet divergent, visions of how to understand literature. Rhetoric and poetics thwarted criticism, to different ends, while literary historiography proved institutionally reassuring yet less useful as a tool for textual understanding.\u003cbr\u003e Uhlig details how Scottish writers like Adam Smith and Hugh Blair taught rhetoric as a form self-expression, while Anglophone and German theorists of poetry like William Wordsworth, Friedrich Schlegel, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe both engaged with and resented critics. At the same time, varying opinions on the practice of literary history emerged, with Immanuel Kant and Thomas De Quincey arguing for the independence of literature from historical forces while writers like Matthew Arnold approached literature as a means of narrating cultural archives instead of drawing on close reading and analysis. \u003ci\u003eRhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography \u003c\/i\u003etraces current debates in literary studies back to this formative moment, serving as a guide to past and present controversies in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Smith Against Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Blair's Indiscipline\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Anticriticism in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Hazlitt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Muted Poetics in Schlegel and Goethe\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Rise of the Archive\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Thinking with Literature: Kant, Arnold, De Quincey, Goethe\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685679657240,"sku":"9781512824155","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rhetoric-poetics-and-literary-historiography-the-formation-of-a-discipline-at-the-turn-of-the-nineteenth-century-hardback-9781512824155","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}