Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory

by Orrin N.C. Wang and Professor Orrin N.C. Wang

Book Overview

Focusing on the convergence of Romantic studies and literary theory since 1970, this text examines Paul de Man's deconstructive use of Shelley, Jerome McGann's Marxist-inflected appropriation of Heinrich Heine, contemporary feminist interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Harold Bloom's pragmatic reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Through these examinations, along with commentary on Keats, Jameson, Lovejoy, and Spitzer, this text attempts a series...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080185220X
• ISBN13: 9780801852206
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"