Description |
viii, 350 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Social foundations of aesthetic forms |
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Social foundations of aesthetic forms series.
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Contents |
pt. 1. The history of romanticism in contemporary criticism The impasse of American new literary history Harold Bloom: judgment and history Geoffrey Hartman: history and indeterminacy Wordsworth's "nutting": suspension and decision Wordsworth as psychologist and socialist -- The prelude and critical revision -- Coleridge and new criticism reconsidered -- Shelley, deconstruction, history -- pt. 2. The discipline of wholeness Matthew Arnold and English studies -- D.H. Lawrence and the modernist sublime -- F.O. Matthiessen and American studies -- Walter Benjamin and materialist historiography Wordsworth and Conrad Charles Baudelaire and Emily Dickinson -- pt. 3. History in contemporary critical practice Frank Kermode and normal criticism -- Paul de Man and deconstruction -- Fredric Jameson and Marxism -- Postmodernism, politics, and the impasse of the New York intellectuals |
Analysis |
Literature Criticism |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [317]-337 |
Subject |
Criticism -- History -- 19th century.
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Criticism -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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LC no. |
86026894 |
ISBN |
0231062540 |
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