The scholar's art
Subtitle: literary studies in a managed world
By: Jerome McGann.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: High instincts and real presences : two romantic responses to the death of beauty; title: Romanticism, post-romanticism, and the afterlife of cultural authority; title: The life of the dead : Laura Riding and the history of twentieth-century writing; title: My kinsman Walter Scott; title: Tennyson and the artists of the beautiful; title: Beauty, a (nineteenth-century) user's manual; title: Mr. James and his discovery interpretation in a new key; title: Interpretation as a game that must be lost; title: Visible language, interface, Ivanhoe; title: Impossible fiction ; or, the importance of being John Cowper Powys; title: Beauty, the irreal, and the willing assumption of disbelief.